There are two large blocks of music for this Memorial Day program. First, there is music composed in memory of composers. Next, there is Americana, especially music with Civil War connections, since Memorial Day was an outgrowth of remembering soldiers who fell in the Civil War.
Themes of the month:
Clocks, bells or mechanical contraptions:
Variations et Fugue sur le Thème
du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons.
National songs: Music and Songs from Gettysburg.
Paul Lansky: Memory Pages (CD: More than Idle Chatter) Frederic Mompou: Spanish Songs and Dances (CD: Spanish (Alicia de Larrocha, piano) Songs and Dances) Jehain Alain: Litanies (CD: Great Toccatas) (Marie-Claire Alain, organ) Maurice Duruflé: Prélude and Fugue on the name of (CD: Duruflé: A.L.A.I.N. L'oeuvre d'orgue) (Phillipe Lefebvre, organ) Maurice Duruflé: Variations et Fugue sur le Thème du (CD: Organ Music of Carillon des Heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons Maurice Duruflé) (John Scott, organ) Maurice Ravel: Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel FAURÉ (CD: Un coeur en hiver) (Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin; Jacques Rouvier, piano) Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (CD: Young Person's (Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Guide to the Neeme Järvi) Orchestra) David Diamond: Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel (CD: American Elegies) (Orchestra of St. Luke's; John Adams) Morton Feldman: Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety (CD: American Elegies) (Orchestra of St. Luke's; John Adams) George Gershwin: Preludes (CD: Heifetz Plays (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Gershwin and Encores) Gerald Moore, piano) Maurice Duruflé: Prélude, Fugue et Choral Varié sur (CD: Organ Music of Veni Creator Maurice Duruflé) (John Scott, organ) Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man (CD: Portraits (Seattle Symphony Orchestra; of Freedom) Gerard Schwartz) Music and Songs from Gettysburg (CD: More Music and Songs from Gettysburg) Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei (CD: Sing We Merrily) (Choir of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver) Charles Ives: General William Booth Enters Heaven (LP: Ives: Music (Gregg Smith Singers; Ithaca College for Chorus) Concert Choir; Gregg Smith) Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell (CD: Heroes) (Mark O'Connor and Pinchas Zukerman, violins) Aaron Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (CD: Portraits (James Earl Jones, speaker; Seattle of Freedom) Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Schwartz) Mary Chapin Carpenter: I am a town (CD: Come On Come On)
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