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37551905 | Play | Main Title | 04:36 Tools | |
37551906 | Play | The Big Country | 00:00 Tools | |
37551907 | Play | Baffled Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551908 | Play | The Welcoming | 00:00 Tools | |
37551909 | Play | Bartender's Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
37551910 | Play | The Reckoning And End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551912 | Play | Old Thunder | 00:00 Tools | |
37551911 | Play | Premonitions | 00:00 Tools | |
37551913 | Play | Julie's House | 00:00 Tools | |
37551914 | Play | Courtin' Time | 00:00 Tools | |
37551915 | Play | The Ascent To The Tower And Frustrated Love | 00:00 Tools | |
37551916 | Play | Wagon Train | 00:00 Tools | |
37551919 | Play | McKay's Triumph | 00:00 Tools | |
37551922 | Play | Cattle at the River | 00:00 Tools | |
37551921 | Play | The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37551923 | Play | Waiting | 00:00 Tools | |
37551917 | Play | The Big Country: Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551928 | Play | Big Muddy | 00:00 Tools | |
37551924 | Play | The Big Muddy | 00:00 Tools | |
37551918 | Play | The Big Country /Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37551929 | Play | The Stalking | 00:00 Tools | |
37551930 | Play | The War Party Gathers | 00:00 Tools | |
37551996 | Play | Theme [The Big Country - Music for the Film] | 00:00 Tools | |
37551920 | Play | Sonata for Piano Duet and String Quartet in G Major: Allegretto | 00:00 Tools | |
37551925 | Play | Forsaken Village | 00:00 Tools | |
37551927 | Play | Attempted Rape | 00:00 Tools | |
37551979 | Play | The Big Country: Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37551926 | Play | The Big Country-Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551932 | Play | The Death of Buck Hannassey | 00:00 Tools | |
37551935 | Play | Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
37551936 | Play | McKay in Blanco Canyon | 00:00 Tools | |
37551937 | Play | Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37551940 | Play | End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551931 | Play | The Druid Wedding | 00:00 Tools | |
37551933 | Play | Love Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37551941 | Play | The Hazing | 00:00 Tools | |
37551934 | Play | Nocturnal Procession | 00:00 Tools | |
37551952 | Play | The Big Country - Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551944 | Play | The Terrill Ranch | 00:00 Tools | |
37551943 | Play | McKay's Decision | 00:00 Tools | |
37551938 | Play | The Death Of Draco ( Composed By Hans J. Salter ) | 00:00 Tools | |
37551945 | Play | Still Waiting | 00:00 Tools | |
37551946 | Play | Horror Stories | 00:00 Tools | |
37551939 | Play | The Big Country - The Welcoming | 00:00 Tools | |
37551947 | Play | Night in Blanco Canyon | 00:00 Tools | |
37551950 | Play | The Capture | 00:00 Tools | |
37551951 | Play | McKay's Ride | 00:00 Tools | |
37551954 | Play | McKay Is Missing | 00:00 Tools | |
37551949 | Play | Bialy kanion | 00:00 Tools | |
37551956 | Play | McKay Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37551942 | Play | 01 Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551957 | Play | The Abduction | 00:00 Tools | |
37551959 | Play | Buck Comes for Julie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551962 | Play | The Big Country - Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37551964 | Play | Pat's Mistake | 00:00 Tools | |
37551963 | Play | The Fight | 00:00 Tools | |
37551970 | Play | The Duel | 00:00 Tools | |
37551948 | Play | The Big Country (Main Theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
37551966 | Play | The Major Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37551968 | Play | The Attempted Rape | 00:00 Tools | |
37551955 | Play | Stay With Me | 00:00 Tools | |
37551965 | Play | Jim and Julie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551967 | Play | The Captive | 00:00 Tools | |
37551953 | Play | Chrysagon And Bronwyn | 00:00 Tools | |
37551976 | Play | The Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37551995 | Play | Moross: The Golden Apple, Act 1: "Lazy Afternoon" | 00:00 Tools | |
37551971 | Play | Ambush In Blanco Canyon - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37551958 | Play | The War Lord In Battle ( Composed By Hans J. Salter ) | 00:00 Tools | |
37551980 | Play | The Raid (Pts. 1 & 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
37551969 | Play | Jayhawkers - The Lynching / The Two Brothers / The Jayhawkers | 00:00 Tools | |
37551960 | Play | Beer Parlour Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
37551961 | Play | Bawdy House Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
37551991 | Play | The Big Country (Main Title) | 00:00 Tools | |
37551972 | Play | Frankie and Johnny Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
37551973 | Play | The Raid & Capture | 00:00 Tools | |
37551975 | Play | Those Everlasting Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
37551974 | Play | Proud Rebel - Main Titles | 00:00 Tools | |
37551977 | Play | Rich Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551987 | Play | BIG COUNTRY, THE - The Welcoming | 00:00 Tools | |
37551982 | Play | WAR LORD, THE - Prelude/Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37551978 | Play | Famous Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551981 | Play | Night at Ladder Ranch | 00:00 Tools | |
37551994 | Play | The Raid and Capture | 00:00 Tools | |
37551989 | Play | Major Terrill's Party | 00:00 Tools | |
37551984 | Play | Willie the Weeper: Sexy Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551988 | Play | The Magnificent Westerns - The Big Country | 02:58 Tools | |
37551990 | Play | McKay Alone/Night at Ladder Ranch/The Fight | 00:00 Tools | |
37551985 | Play | Lonely Wille | 00:00 Tools | |
37551986 | Play | Fox-Trot Murder | 00:00 Tools | |
37551983 | Play | Funeral Party One-Step | 00:00 Tools | |
37552002 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37551992 | Play | Frankie Tune | 00:00 Tools | |
89931512 | Play | The Big Country, Film Score | 00:00 Tools | |
37551998 | Play | Big Country | 00:00 Tools | |
37551993 | Play | Contented Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37551999 | Play | The Big Country: The Welcoming | 00:00 Tools | |
37552018 | Play | Ambush In Blanco Canyon - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37551997 | Play | Big Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
37552020 | Play | Sonatina: II. Allegro ma non troppo | 00:00 Tools | |
37552021 | Play | Sonatina: I. Andante | 00:00 Tools | |
37552106 | Play | 'The Big Country' - Title music | 00:00 Tools | |
37552000 | Play | Major Terrill's Party: Dance II | 00:00 Tools | |
37552001 | Play | The Magnificent Westerns - Wagon Train | 00:00 Tools | |
37552003 | Play | Introduction | 00:00 Tools | |
37552011 | Play | The Big Country: The Big Country | 00:00 Tools | |
37552008 | Play | The Sharkfighters | 00:00 Tools | |
37552004 | Play | Major Terrill's Party: Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37552024 | Play | Night At A Ladder Ranch | 00:00 Tools | |
37552005 | Play | Sonata-Scherzo | 00:00 Tools | |
37552006 | Play | Main Title (From "The Big Country") | 00:00 Tools | |
37552007 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Pt. 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552012 | Play | The Duel/The Death of Buck Hannassey/End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37552030 | Play | Sonatina: III. Poco lento ma ben ritmico | 00:00 Tools | |
37552028 | Play | The Death of Buck Hannery | 00:00 Tools | |
37552009 | Play | Major Terrill's Party: Dance I | 00:00 Tools | |
37552019 | Play | The War Party Gathers/McKay in Blanco Canyon/The Major Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37552038 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552025 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Introduction | 00:00 Tools | |
37552033 | Play | Big Country, The - Main Title (2:53) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552016 | Play | Ambush In Blanco Canyon - Pt. 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552013 | Play | McKay's Ride/McKay is Missing/The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37552010 | Play | Weites Land / Thema des Films | 00:00 Tools | |
37552014 | Play | Major Terrill's Party: Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
37552015 | Play | The Big Country (Main Title Theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552035 | Play | Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
37552017 | Play | ??? | 00:00 Tools | |
37552109 | Play | The Big Country (Theme from "The Big Country" Original Soundtrack) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552023 | Play | Ambush In Blanco Canyon - Pt. 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552034 | Play | Dance 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552022 | Play | The Big Country/Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37552031 | Play | Stonebury | 00:00 Tools | |
37552026 | Play | The Cardinal in Vienna | 00:00 Tools | |
37552027 | Play | The Big Country Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37552045 | Play | McKay's Ride/Mckay's Is Missing/The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37552071 | Play | The Big Country - Theme from "The Big Country" Original Soundtrack | 00:00 Tools | |
37552075 | Play | Cam Recovers | 00:00 Tools | |
37552032 | Play | Annemarie | 00:00 Tools | |
37552044 | Play | Big Country, The - The War Party Gathers/McKay In Blanco Canyon/The Major Alone (7:17) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552057 | Play | Big Country, The - The Raid And Capture (4:57) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552036 | Play | Dance 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552037 | Play | Starting Down the River | 00:00 Tools | |
37552074 | Play | Chopping Wood | 00:00 Tools | |
37552088 | Play | Cam's Capture | 00:00 Tools | |
37552078 | Play | Lazy Afternoon | 00:00 Tools | |
37552029 | Play | 12 Waiting | 00:00 Tools | |
37552052 | Play | The Jayhawkers: Suite | 00:00 Tools | |
37552083 | Play | The Country (Finale) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552043 | Play | The Death of Draco | 00:00 Tools | |
37552050 | Play | The Raft Is Destroyed | 00:00 Tools | |
37552061 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Dance 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552051 | Play | In Pikesville | 00:00 Tools | |
37552049 | Play | Variation 5: Andante | 00:00 Tools | |
37552107 | Play | Attempted Assault | 00:00 Tools | |
37552063 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
37552040 | Play | The Duel/Death Of Buck Hennassey/End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37552041 | Play | The Big Country-The Magnificent Westerns | 00:00 Tools | |
37552054 | Play | The Cardinal's Faith | 00:00 Tools | |
37552042 | Play | Big Country Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
37552056 | Play | The Mountain Road (Main Title, The Men, The Airplane, Destroying the Airbase) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552070 | Play | The Sharkfighters - Overture | 00:00 Tools | |
37552067 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Dance 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552084 | Play | The Big Country: Old Thunder | 00:00 Tools | |
37552046 | Play | 08 Dance 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552105 | Play | Jeanne Hides Cam | 00:00 Tools | |
37552047 | Play | 10 Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
37552048 | Play | 09 Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37552069 | Play | Major Terrill's Party - Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37552073 | Play | THE WAR LORD - What Of The Future? / Vengeance And Death / Finale | 00:00 Tools | |
37552039 | Play | Big Country-Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37552111 | Play | Cam Arrives In Abilene | 00:00 Tools | |
37552089 | Play | Posse | 00:00 Tools | |
37552079 | Play | The Big Country [Main Theme] | 00:00 Tools | |
37552064 | Play | The Chase | 00:00 Tools | |
88214927 | Play | The Jayhawkers - The Lynching / The Two Brothers / The Jayhawkers | 00:00 Tools | |
37552065 | Play | Wagon Train-The Magnificent Westerns | 00:00 Tools | |
37552055 | Play | The War Lord In Battle | 00:00 Tools | |
37552058 | Play | 07 Dance 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552059 | Play | Huck Gets Away | 00:00 Tools | |
37552087 | Play | A Smashed Guitar And Cam Saves Jake | 00:00 Tools | |
37552085 | Play | The Big Country: McKay In Blanco Canyon | 00:00 Tools | |
37552060 | Play | 11 McKay's Ride/Mckay's Is Missing/The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37552104 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Bawdy House Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
37552068 | Play | Wagon Train: Wagon Train | 00:00 Tools | |
88214942 | Play | The War Party Gathers / McKay In Blanco Canyon / The Major Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37552103 | Play | Raid Montage | 00:00 Tools | |
37552062 | Play | The Mountain Road - Suite: Main Title, The Men. The Airplane, Destroying The Airbase | 00:00 Tools | |
37552072 | Play | The Proud Rebel: The Proud Rebel | 00:00 Tools | |
37552076 | Play | War Party Gathers/McKay In Blanco Canyon/The Major Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
37552053 | Play | The Big Country-The Welcoming | 00:00 Tools | |
37552066 | Play | The Cardinal Themes | 00:00 Tools | |
37552081 | Play | The Cardinal's Decision | 00:00 Tools | |
37552095 | Play | The Big Country: Big Muddy | 00:00 Tools | |
89931513 | Play | Rachel, Rachel - Americana Miniature | 00:00 Tools | |
37552102 | Play | Brothers And A Raid | 00:00 Tools | |
37552110 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Fox-trot Murder | 00:00 Tools | |
37552127 | Play | The Last Act | 00:00 Tools | |
37552130 | Play | Prelude To Death | 00:00 Tools | |
37552133 | Play | Cam's Return | 00:00 Tools | |
37552091 | Play | The New Raft | 00:00 Tools | |
37552077 | Play | Symphony No 1 - Theme and Variation | 00:00 Tools | |
37552090 | Play | Major Terrill's Party-Pt 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552092 | Play | Way Down South | 00:00 Tools | |
37552080 | Play | Weites Land / Thema des Films von 1958 | 00:00 Tools | |
89931514 | Play | Clarinet Choir Sonatina: I. Allegro | 00:00 Tools | |
37552094 | Play | Main Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
88214928 | Play | Mckay in Blanco Canton | 00:00 Tools | |
37552082 | Play | III. Vivace | 00:00 Tools | |
37552096 | Play | Flight and Finale | 00:00 Tools | |
37552100 | Play | The Valley Of Gwangi - The Landscape / Forbidden Valley / Pterodactyl Attack | 00:00 Tools | |
37552119 | Play | The Big Country: McKay's Triumph | 00:00 Tools | |
37552120 | Play | Seal And Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37552108 | Play | The Valley Of Gwangi - Capture Of Gwangi / Gwangi Enchained | 00:00 Tools | |
89931515 | Play | The Big Country: The War Party Gathers | 00:00 Tools | |
37552121 | Play | Darcy Arrives | 00:00 Tools | |
37552132 | Play | Big Country, The - The Duel/The Death Of Buck Hannassey/End Title (5:35) | 00:00 Tools | |
37552124 | Play | Accusation | 00:00 Tools | |
37552128 | Play | Finale | 00:00 Tools | |
37552129 | Play | Death | 00:00 Tools | |
37552136 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Funeral Party One-step | 00:00 Tools | |
88214946 | Play | The Big Country Main Title (From "The Cardinal") | 00:00 Tools | |
37552093 | Play | The War Lord | 00:00 Tools | |
89931516 | Play | Huck and Jim / Huckleberry Finn | 00:00 Tools | |
88214932 | Play | Weites Land | 00:00 Tools | |
88214929 | Play | The Big Country: The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37552097 | Play | The Big Country: The Death Of Buck Hannery | 00:00 Tools | |
88214931 | Play | Big Country, The - The Welcoming (3:19) | 00:00 Tools | |
88214933 | Play | Prelude | 00:00 Tools | |
37552118 | Play | THE MOUNTAIN ROAD - Suite | 00:00 Tools | |
88214939 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Beer Parlour Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
37552098 | Play | The War Lord - Prelude | 00:00 Tools | |
37552125 | Play | FIVE FINGER EXERCISE - Romanza from Music For The Flicks | 00:00 Tools | |
88214937 | Play | After the Feud / Jim's Sins / On to Pikesville / The Placard | 00:00 Tools | |
88214943 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Bartender's Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
89931517 | Play | McKay's Ride - McKay Is Missing - The Old House | 00:00 Tools | |
37552101 | Play | The Big Country Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
88214930 | Play | The Landscape | 00:00 Tools | |
89931518 | Play | The Big Country (opening titles) | 00:00 Tools | |
89931519 | Play | Zero Hour | 00:00 Tools | |
37552112 | Play | Invention | 00:00 Tools | |
37552113 | Play | Big_01_MT | 00:00 Tools | |
37552114 | Play | The Magnificent Westerns | 00:00 Tools | |
89931520 | Play | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN - Huck's Escape | 00:00 Tools | |
88214936 | Play | Big Country, The - Waltz (2:47) | 00:00 Tools | |
89931521 | Play | THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN - The Mississippi | 00:00 Tools | |
88214934 | Play | Medley: Main Title/Hannibal, Missouri | 00:00 Tools | |
37552115 | Play | The Valley Of Gwangi: The Forbidden Valley/Pterodactyl Attack/Death Of Gwangi | 00:00 Tools | |
37552116 | Play | Wagon Train (Main Theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
89931522 | Play | The English Uncles / On the Raft | 00:00 Tools | |
37552117 | Play | McKay In Bianco Canyon | 00:00 Tools | |
88214935 | Play | The Big Country: The Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
37552122 | Play | 18 The Duel/The Death of Buck Hannassey/End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
88214938 | Play | The Forbidden Valley | 00:00 Tools | |
88214944 | Play | The War Lord - Prelude / Main Title | 00:00 Tools | |
88214940 | Play | Into the Trap | 00:00 Tools | |
89931523 | Play | The Big Country - opening titles | 00:00 Tools | |
88214941 | Play | The Jayhawkers | 00:00 Tools | |
37552123 | Play | 14 Mckay Alone/Night at Ladder Ranch/The Fight | 00:00 Tools | |
88214945 | Play | Cam shoots Evan and the stronghold | 00:00 Tools | |
89931524 | Play | Lazy Afternoon - Remastered Album Version | 00:00 Tools | |
37552126 | Play | The Big Country-End Title | 00:00 Tools | |
37552131 | Play | 17 The War Party Gathers/Mckay in Blanco Canyon/The Major Alone | 00:00 Tools | |
89931525 | Play | Pap / Pap's Cabin / Pap and Huck / Huck's Murder | 00:00 Tools | |
89931526 | Play | Cam riding and Lordan in town | 00:00 Tools | |
89931527 | Play | The Blessing / Huck Hunts the Gold / Huck Gets the Gold / Huck Hides the Gold | 00:00 Tools | |
37552134 | Play | Main Title/Hannibal, Missouri | 00:00 Tools | |
37552135 | Play | Frankie And Johnny: Frankie And Johnny Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
88214947 | Play | Ambush in Blanco Canyon-Pt 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552137 | Play | Major Terrill's Party-Pt 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
37552138 | Play | I. Allegro | 00:00 Tools | |
37552139 | Play | II. Andante | 00:00 Tools | |
37552140 | Play | Fugue | 00:00 Tools | |
37552141 | Play | Frankie and Johnny | 00:00 Tools |
Jerome Moross was born in New York on August 1, 1913. Beginning piano lessons at age five and composing by age eight, Moross was, in 1924, the youngest child ever to gradua te from a New York City Public School up to that time.He graduated from New York University School of Music at eighteen and as a senior there, concurrently held a Juilliard conducting fellowship. Moross was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1947 and 1948. Paeans, the first of his concert pieces to be performed when Moross was seventeen, was conducted by Bernard Herrmann and soon after published by Henry Cowell. Performances and commissions followed. Henry Cowell played THOSE EVERLASTING BLUES (1932), and the composer wrote BIGUINE (1934) for Charles Weidman. At twenty-four, Moross was the youngest composer ever commissioned by the Columbia Composers Commission. A tall story for orchestra resulted and was first performed by CBS radio. Sir Thomas Beecham premiered SYMPHONY NO. 1 at the Seattle Symphony in 1943. Other performances followed, and CBS radio aired one of the several by Alfred Wallenstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.Moross wrote the first of his five ballets, PAUL BUNYAN: AN AMERICAN SAGA, for Charles Weidman. The four others, including the best known, FRANKIE AND JOHNNY, were commissioned by Ruth Page of the Chicago Ballet. FRANKIE AND JOHNNY has also been performed as an orchestral suite. THE LAST JUDGEMENT, a ballet of ten dances, is arranged for piano four-hands as well as for orchestra. Moross loved writing for the theatre and his earliest stage work was a revue, PARADE, produced on Broadway by the Theatre Guild when the composer was 21. In the late 1930s Moross began work with John Latouche on BALLET BALLADS which opened in the spring of 1948 at ANTA, moving to Broadway in May of that year. Consisting of three separate pieces without any spoken dialogue, (the fourth piece was not done), "the idea was to so mix the singing and dancing that you didn't know where the singers began or where the dancers ended" said Moross in a 1978 interview. Their next show, THE GOLDEN APPLE, was produced in 1954 and also had no spoken dialogue. Both shows received rave reviews and THE GOLDEN APPLE won the 1954 Drama Critics Awards. After Latouche's death, Moross collaborated with Edward Eager on GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!, a musical about the Civil War. UNDERWORLD, a show set in 1920s Chicago, was never completed and consists of only seventeen songs, with lyrics by John Hollander and Lester Judson. Premier Recordings released eight of these songs on its CD, 'Broadway Dreams'. The wide spectrum of themes and styles in these shows demonstrates the composer's sharp ear for the diversity of American sounds, and his versatility. Moross' music was instinctively 'American' and remained tonal and melodic throughout his career. He loved folk tunes and popular songs of his day and in his formative years continually sought out indigenous music. An experience his younger brother enjoys recounting is their going off to Coney Island to listen to carousel music.Along with writing musicals, ballets and concert works, Moross worked in Hollywood, first as an orchestrator for innumerable films in the late 1930s adn 1940s, and then beginning in 1948, as a composer. Of his seventeen film scores, THE BIG COUNTRY (1958) is best known and now recognized as a 'Western' classic.The score won an Academy Award nomination. His 'Western' style was shaped largely by his first experience in the Great Plains and far west which occurred in November 1936 when he travelled by bus from Chicago to Hollywood. In a 1979 interview with John Caps he describes it as similar to a religious experience. In a 1973 letter to Christopher Palmer he said, "...as we hit the Plains I got so excited that I stopped off in Albuquerque (which at the time was a small town of about 35,000 people) and the next day I got to the edge of town and walked out onto the flat land with a marvellous feeling of being alone in the vastness with the mountains cutting off the horizon. When it came to writing the Main Title of the film, [The Big Country], I wrote the string figure and the opening theme almost automatically." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.