Bear Essentials - American Classcics

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Album Summary

Performers

• Harmen Boer (Clarinet)
• Howard Shelley (Piano)
• Willard White (Bass)
• Graeme McNaught (Piano)
• Susan Graham (Mezzo-soprano)
• Janet Hilton (Clarinet)

Conductors

• Bamert, Matthias
• Dausgaard, Thomas
• Dufallo, Richard
• Hickox, Richard
• Järvi, Neeme
• Jeanes, Major E. W.
• Mosko, Stephen
• Slatkin, Leonard
• Stephens, D.S.
• Tortelier, Yan Pascal
• Turovsky, Yuli

Ensembles

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• Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb
• Blues & Royals Band
• Center City Brass Quintet
• Cranwell Royal Air Force College Band
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• I Musici de Montréal
• Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• Safri Duo

Composers

• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
• Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007)
• Traditional Spiritual
• Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Morton Gould (Composer/Conductor) (1913 - 1996)
• Steve Reich (1936 - )
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
• John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932)
• Samuel Barber (Composer) (1910 - 1981)
• William Grant Still (1895 - 1978)
• John Adams (Composer) (1947 - )

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Works Details

Copland, Aaron : Fanfare for the common man

• Conductor: Richard Dufallo
• Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942

Adams, John : Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra

• Conductor: Stephen Mosko
• Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1986

Ellington, Duke : Do nothin' till you hear from me

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Ensemble: Center City Brass Quintet
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Sousa, John Philip : Stars and Stripes Forever

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 3 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1896

Gershwin, George : Walking the Dog, promenade for piano or orchestra (arrangement from film "Shall We Dance")

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937

Ellington, Duke : The River :: Giggling Rapids

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bernstein, Leonard : Prelude, Fugue and Riffs :: Riffs

• Performer: Harmen Boer (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Richard Dufallo
• Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• Running Time: 4 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1949

Ellington, Duke : Solitude

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1933

Barber, Samuel : Adagio for Strings

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 8 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1936

Menotti, Gian Carlo : Sebastian :: Pavane

• Conductor: Richard Hickox
• Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1944

Gould, Morton : Spirituals for Strings :: Gospel Train

• Conductor: Yuli Turovsky
• Ensemble: I Musici de Montréal
• Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1959

Ellington, Duke : The River :: Meander

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Still, William Grant : Symphony no 2 in G minor ("Song of A New Race") :: Mvt 2. Song of a New Race

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 8 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1936-1937

Sousa, John Philip : Washington Post

• Conductor: Major Jeanes
• Ensemble: Blues & Royals Band
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1889

Gershwin, George : Girl Crazy :: Overture

• Conductor: Yan Tortelier
• Running Time: 5 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930

Sousa, John Philip : Liberty Bell

• Conductor: D.S. Stephens
• Ensemble: Cranwell Royal Air Force College Band
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1893

Gershwin, George : Rhapsody in Blue

• Performer: Howard Shelley (Piano)
• Conductor: Yan Tortelier
• Running Time: 17 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1924

Traditional Spiritual : Steal Away to Jesus, spiritual

• Performers: Willard White (Bass); Graeme McNaught (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: Summertime

• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb
• Running Time: 4 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Barber, Samuel : Vanessa, Op. 32 :: Must the winter come so soon?

• Performer: Susan Graham (Mezzo-soprano)
• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Notes: Composition written: 1956-57.
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1956-1957

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: Porgy Sings from Catfish Row

• Performer: Howard Shelley (Piano)
• Conductor: Yan Tortelier
• Running Time: 4 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Reich, Steve : Nagoya Marimbas, for 2 marimbas

• Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
• Ensemble: Safri Duo
• Notes: Composition written: 1994.
• Running Time: 4 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1994

Still, William Grant : Symphony no 1 ("Afro-American") :: Mvt. III

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 12/06/1930

Barber, Samuel : Vanessa, Op. 32 :: Intermezzo

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Notes: Composition written: 1956-57.
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1956-1957

Bernstein, Leonard : West Side Story :: America

• Conductor: Richard Dufallo
• Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• Notes: Composition written: 1955-57.
• Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1955-1957

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: It ain't Necessarily So

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Ensemble: Center City Brass Quintet
• Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Copland, Aaron : Concerto for Clarinet :: Mvt. II

• Performer: Janet Hilton (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Matthias Bamert
• Running Time: 8 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1947-1948

Ellington, Duke : The River :: Riba

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Copland, Aaron : Old American Songs, Set 1 :: Simple Gifts

• Performers: Graeme McNaught (Piano); Willard White (Bass)
• Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1950

Bernstein, Leonard : Divertimento for Orchestra :: Blues

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Running Time: 1 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1980

Gershwin, George : Strike up the Band :: Overture

• Conductor: Yan Tortelier
• Running Time: 7 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1927