For Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day we have (mostly) American music, including William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony.
Music for MLK Day & Inauguration Day
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Playlist:
9:02 am
- Spirituals for Strings
- Composer: Morton Gould
- Ensemble: I Musici de Montreal
- Conductor: Yuli Turovsky
- CD/Album: Composers in New York
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9848
9:24 am
- Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened (coronation anthem)
- Composer: George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble: The English Concert
- Soloists: Choir of Westminster Abbey
- Conductor: Simon Preston
- CD/Album: Handel: Coronation Anthems-Concerti a Due Cori
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 447280
9:35 am
- Symphony #1 "Afro-American"
- Composer: William Grant Still
- Ensemble: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
- CD/Album: Still: Symphony No. 1/Ellington: 'River' Suite
- Record co./Cat #: Chandos 9154
10:01 am
- Symphony #2 in Bb , Op. 21
- Composer: George W. Chadwick
- Ensemble: National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
- Conductor: Theodore Kuchar
- CD/Album: Chadwick: Symphony No. 2; Symphonic Sketches
- Record co./Cat #: Naxos 8.559213
10:38 am
- Tremonisha Sampler
- Composer: Scott Joplin
- Ensemble: Great American Main St. Band
- CD/Album: Silks and Rags
- Record co./Cat #: EMI 54131
11:01 am
- String Quartet #1
- Composer: Charles Ives
- Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
- CD/Album: American Originals
- Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 435864
11:24 am
- Fantasy Pieces , Op. 6
- Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes
- Soloists: David Allen Wehr, piano
- CD/Album: Griffes - Op. 5, 6, 7, & Sonata
- Record co./Cat #: Connosieur Society 4205
11:42 am
- Symphony #3: Molto deliberato (based on Fanfare for the Common Man)
- Composer: Aaron Copland
- Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
- CD/Album: Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Music for a Great City
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 60149
12:05 pm
- El Capitan
- Composer: John Philip Sousa
- Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
- CD/Album: Leonard Slatkin Conducts American Portraits
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 60983
12:07 pm
- American Beauty Rag
- Composer: Joseph Lamb
- Soloists: David Buechner, piano
- CD/Album: Joseph Francis Lamb - 19 Rags
- Record co./Cat #: Connosieur Society 4216
12:13 pm
- Sonata for Brass Quintet
- Composer: John Cheetham
- Ensemble: Gaudete Brass
- CD/Album: Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves
- Record co./Cat #: Cedille 90000 136
12:27 pm
- Violin Sonata in a , Op. 34
- Composer: Amy Beach
- Ensemble: Lark Quartet members
- Soloists: Joanne Polk, piano
- CD/Album: Amy Beach: Morning Glories
- Record co./Cat #: Arabesque 6747