Today on PT, special music in honor of a few of our 44 Commanders-in-Chief. Leonard Bernstein wrote a fanfare in honor of the Inauguration of JFK in 1961. John Knowles Paine wrote a Solemn March for Abraham Lincoln's funeral. Plus, we'll hear music by the man who can arguably be called the country's Composer-in-Chief, Aaron Copland.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Walter Kittredge: Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Jacqueline Schwab, piano
James Sanderson: Hail to the Chief
The Manchester Cornet Band
Michael Torke: Purple
The French National Orchestra, David Zinman, conductor
Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France
Francis Hopkinson: Washington's March
The United States Marine Band
George Frideric Handel: Air and Variations from Harpsichord Suite No. 5 (the Harmonious Blacksmith)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano
John Knowles Paine: Solemn March (In Memory of President Abraham Lincoln)
The United States Marine Band, Col. Timothy W. Foley, conductor
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland
Felix Mendelssohn: Finale from Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano, Alexander Schneider, violin, Pablo Casals, cello
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Igancy Jan Paderewski: Nocturne in B flat, Op. 16, No. 4
Eduard Kunz, piano
International Chopin Piano Festival, Duszniki Zdroj, Poland
Aaron Copland: Scenes from Billy the Kid
The United States Marine Band, Maj. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia
Hour 2
Carl Maria von Weber: Leise, Leise, fromme Weise, from Der Freischutz
Sabine Meyer, clarinet, the Opera Orchestra of Zurich, Franz Welser-Most, conductor
Michael Nyman: First movement from String Quartet No. 2
The Catalyst Quartet
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
John Adams: The Chairman Dances, from Nixon in China
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Concert Hall, Perth, Australia
Aaron Copland: Finale from Symphony No. 3
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
Leonard Bernstein: Fanfare I (for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy)
The United States Marine Band, Maj. Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia
Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
The Knights, Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Stillwater Music Festival, Stillwater, Minnesota
Leonard Bernstein: Waltz from Divertimento
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Barbican Hall, London, England
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