 | This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from July 8, 2011. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/CowboyClassics |
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As we discussed in our original post introducing today’s montage, the cowboy mystique has inspired countless works of music – film and television scores, and works for the stage. American composers of course have penned memorable melodies we rightly associate with cowboys, but also composers from abroad.
The two main works on the montage – Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo and Puccini’s final act from the Girl from the Golden West are excellent examples of ambitious stage works that look at romance in the open prairie – one lighthearted and the other with dramatic twists.
As filler today, I found the complete performance of Puccini’s opera that I used in the montage.
Minnie: Renata Tebaldi
Ramerrez: Mario del Monaco
Jack Rance: Cornell MacNeil
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Franco Capuana, conducting
I think you will (still) love this music too.
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