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Across 1. Copland outlaw ballet composed for Lincoln Kirstein 5. “Grand Canyon Suite” composer 8. Another word for “western settler,” subject of spirited Peggy Stuart Coolidge dances 10. “High Noon” Singer 13. Douglas Moore opera about Norwegian settlers, after O.E. Rölvaag novel 14. Progenitor of “spaghetti western” sound 16. Gateway City symphony orchestra, oldest west of the Mississippi (title abbrev.) 18. Composed score for film adaptation of Steinbeck’s “The Red Pony” 20. Arranged “Pops Hoe-Down” for Fiedler 22. Italian pianist and Bach arranger, composed fantasy on Native American themes 23. Puccini “spaghetti western” after David Belasco play (in English) 26. Created Annie Oakley for Irving Berlin 27. “Baby Doe” breakout singer at New York City Opera 28. Horse-drawn caravans, subject of Eric Houghton’s “Pioneer Songs” 29. Vaudeville fiddle tune staple, “The _______ Traveler” (state song) 30. Official state dance of California 31. American symphonist born on Lincoln’s birthday, in a log cabin, in Lincoln Co., OK 35. How many brides for how many brothers? 37. National park that forms the subject of violin concerto by composer-cowboy Jett Hitt 41. “To a Wild Rose” composer, also wrote “Indian Suite” for orchestra 42. Twain jumping frog county of origin, setting of opera by Lukas Foss 43. Copland buckaroo ballet for Agnes De Mille 44. Native American nickname for Black cavalry soldiers, referenced in work by Kimo Williams 45. He’s back in the saddle again 46. Writer who disappeared in West or Mexico, subject of Rodney Waschka II opera “Saint Ambrose” 47. Elmer, not Leonard, “The Magnificent Seven” composer

Down 1. Utah national park that inspired Messiaen’s “Des canyons aux étoiles...” 2. Puccini “spaghetti western” after David Belasco play (in Italian) 3. Western author who inspired Craig Bohmler’s “Riders of the Purple Sage” 4. Roy Rogers’ horse 6. Western author who inspired Bergsma’s “Gold and the Señor Commandante” 7. “Rawhide” singer 9. Sang Dick Johnson at Met premiere of Puccini western 10. Composed “The Plow That Broke the Plains” for Pare Lorentz 11. NBC conductor who introduced Elie Siegmeister’s “Western Suite” 12. Artistic movement inspired by Native American music, exemplified by Arthur Farwell 15. Arranged “Western Symphony” for Balanchine, one syllable of famous “Corral” showdown 17. Nebraska hometown of Howard Hanson 19. Barbara Harbach opera, based on Willa Cather book from Great Plains trilogy 21. Folksong transcribed by Ruth Crawford Seeger, basis of Copland’s “Hoe-Down” 24. Overture for Swiss national hero, borrowed by Lone Ranger 25. Texas canyon, second largest in U.S., inspired symphony by Samuel Jones 28. State university home of “Dean of Northwest Composers” George Frederick McKay 32. Serenades Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) with “April in Paris” 33. Meredith Willson high-spirited bumpkin, later “unsinkable” grande dame 34. “The Big Country” composer 36. Cranky Yankee composer of busted-up cowboy song, “Charlie Rutladge” 38. Where the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye 39. Wife of Leadville “Silver King,” inspiration for opera by Douglas Moore 40. Short-lived American Impressionist, wrote string quartet on “Indian themes”