Much has been written about the American spirit and its relationship to our amazing natural landscape—and the urban landscape of our major cities.
American composers, too, have been drawn to the geographical and regional characteristics that have shaped this country, conveying in music the visual and emotional impact of that experience.
In the next hour, we’ll journey with them, from the lower Mississippi to New England, from New York City to Alaska, from the deserts of the Southwest to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC |
| Curiale: Awakening [for “Gates of Gold: Call of the Mountain”] | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Curiale | Black Box BBM1050 | 680125105028 |
| Virgil Thomson & Howard Hanson [for The River Suite] | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestre, Neville Marriner | EMI Classics 2 06612 2 |
5099920661229 |
| Mercury Living Presence Collector’s Edition 1 [for Copland: Appalachian Spring] | Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati | Mercury Living Presence478 3566 | 028947835660 |
| Coolidge: Under an American Sky [for New England Autumn: “Country Fair”] | Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Siegfried Landau, | Gift of Music CCL CDG1142 | 658592114225 |
| Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra[for Piano Concerto in F] | Anne-Marie McDermott, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown, | Bridge Records 9252 | 090404925221 |
| Grofé - The Grand Canyon Suite [for “Sunrise,”] | Boston Pops | RCA Red Seal BVCC-5047 | [none] |
| Americana: 20th Century Works for Orchestra [for Siegmeister’s Western Suite “Prairie Morning”] | Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel | Vox Allegretto 8155 | 047163815522 |
| American Romantics III [for “At Sunset,” from Rocky Mountain Sketches, by Cecil Burleigh] | Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, Reuben Blundel | New Focus NFCR 166C | 655646189109 |
| Adams: In the White Silence | Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Tim Weiss | New World Records 80600-2 | 093228060024
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