Episode 422: The Band of Cowboys

The high-crowned, wide-brimmed, soft-felt hat that is intimately associated with the cowboy image is sometimes called a "Ten-gallon" hat. And while the Stetson Company confirms that their hats hold only about 3 quarts, the nickname, which may have come from a loose translation of the Spanish "tan galán" meaning "really handsome" or "so fine", definitely adds to that mystique.

The Twelve Gallon Hat
  Julie Giroux
  North Texas Symphonic Band, Paula Crider
Santa Fe Saga
  Morton Gould
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Howard Dunn
San Antonio Dances
  Frank Ticheli
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
Western One-Step from “Suite of Old American Dances”
  Robert Russell Bennett
  Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Little Buckaroo
  Anthony DiLorenzo
  Scott Hartman trombone soloist
  Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lawrence Isaacson
The Cowboys
  John Williams
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin