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Works (4)

• The Promise of Living (1954)

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  Extracted directly from Copland’s opera, the Tender Land, The Promise of Living can be performed as a concert work for mixed chorus (SATBB) and orchestra.

• The Red Pony (suite) (1948)

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  Though the film was not a commercial success, Copland arranged parts of his score to The Red Pony into a concert suite for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

• Stomp Your Foot (1954)

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  Stomp Your Foot for chorus and orchestra was excerpted directly from Copland’s opera, the Tender Land. Copland made two chorus arrangements for SATB and TTBB.

• The Tender Land (1952–54, rev. 1955)

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  Erik Johns as Horace Everett wrote the libretto for Copland’s opera, The Tender Land. Jerome Robbins directed the original, and the final revision was done in 1955.