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Under an America Sky - Music for the Wide Open Spaces

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2005-09-01

Works: Peggy Stuart-Coolidge: New England Autumn, suite for chamber orchestra; Spirituals in Sunshine and Shadow, for orchestra; Daniel Belknap: The Seasons; William Grant Still: From the Black Belt, suite ...
Performers: Glazer, Frank; Taylor, Millard
Conductors: Landau, Siegfried; Kunzel, Erich

From Charles Ives to classic Coolidge, this program of evocative American music captures the essence of the American spirit and its relationship to the landscape....continue...

A Gift to Be Simple

1 CD / Gift Of Music / 2005-02-01

Works: Aaron Copland: Variations on a Shaker Melody, for orchestra (arr. from Appalachian Spring); Appalachian Spring; Anonymous: Ainsworth Psalms; Bay Psalms; The Lord descended from above (from James Lyon...
Performers: Bogdan, Thomas; Garber, Lin; Mason, Patrick [Baritone Vocal]; Muenz, Richard; Opalach, Jan; Parker, Paul; Price, Patricia; Rees, Rosalind; Shields, Roger
Conductors: Susskind, Walter; Smith, Gregg; Landau, Siegfried

The pioneering spirit of the first explorers of the United States of America, from their own music from the earliest times to superb evocations of...continue...