On this national holiday, portions of each hour have music connected to the United States.
Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (CD: Still: Symphony (Detroit Symphony No. 2 / Dawson: Negro Orchestra; Neeme Järvi) Folk Symphony / Ellington: Harlem) Duke Ellington: Harlem (arr. Luther Henderson) (CD: Still: Symphony (Detroit Symphony No. 2 / Dawson: Negro Orchestra; Neeme Järvi) Folk Symphony / Ellington: Harlem) Diego de Conceição: Battle on the Fifth Tone (CD: Gargoyles (David Britton, organ) and Chimeras) Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 3 violins in D (CD: J. S. Bach: minor, BWV 1064 Violin Concertos) III. Allegro (Paolo Beznosiuk, Catherine Mackintosh, violins; Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin & direction; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment)
Henry Purcell: They that go down to the sea in ships (CD: Purcell: (David Thomas, bass; Matthew Bright, Choral Works) alto; Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; The English Concert; Simon Preston) Travelling Home (CD: An American Rochester Journey: Bound for William Billings: Jordan the Promised Land) The promised land -- The traveller Pilgrim's farewell Maxwell (Waverly Consort; Michael Jaffee) Aaron Copland: The promise of living (CD: Westminster (The Westminster Choir; Glen Parker, Choir at Spoleto Nancianne Parella, 4-handed piano; Festival, USA) Joseph Flummerfelt) Léo Delibes: Coppélia Prelude and mazurka Waltz Ballade of the Ear of Wheat (Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon; Kent Nagano) Benjamin Britten: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and (CD: Bushes and Briars: Lady Barnard Folksong Arrangements (Gents of St. John's and Partsongs) College, Cambridge) Roxanna Panufnik: Deus, Deus menus (Choir of Westminster Cathedral; James O'Donnell)
Charles Marie Widor: Symphonie no. 5, op. 42 (concert tape, Allegro cantabile October 31, 1993) (James Welch, organ) Georg Frideric Handel: Esther (CD: Handel: Esther) (Drew Minter, countertenor; Westminster Cathedral Boys Choir; Chorus & Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music; Christopher Hogwood) William Schumann: New England Triptych (CD: An American (Dallas Symphony Tapestry) Orchestra; Andrew Litton) Jack Gottlieb: Presidential Suite (CD: Songs of (Gregg Smith Singers) Humor & Satire) Libby Larson: Reasons for loving the harmonica (CD: Fast cats and (American Boychoir; James Litton) mysterious cows) Aaron Copland: Old American Songs (CD: Fast cats and (American Boychoir; James Litton) mysterious cows)
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