On Thanksgiving Day, we'll feature music by great American composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Martin Frost, the virtuoso Swedish clarinetist, plays Copland's jazzy clarinet concerto. We'll hear Bernstein's overture to Candide, from a concert in Luxembourg. And Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony from the Tanglewood Music Festival, about 150 miles west of the site of the very first Thanksgiving feast in 1621.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Traditional American: Shenandoah
The Modern Mandolin Quartet
Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano
Martin Frost, clarinet, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad, leader
Ojai Music Festival, Ojai, California
Bruce Adolphe: Excerpt from Do You Dream in Color?
Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano, Marija Stroke, piano
Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture in E Minor from Tafelmusik, Production 1, TWV 55:e1
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rachel Podger, violin and leader
International Chamber Orchestra Festival, Minneapolis
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: My Dear Someone
Chris Thile, mandolin and voice
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gigue from Solo Violin Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004 (arranged for mandolin)
Chris Thile, mandolin
Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen, Michigan
Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture
The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Wayne Marshall, conductor
Philharmonie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Hour 2
Antonin Dvorak: Furiant from String Sextet in A, Op. 48
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, director
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
Traditional (arranged by Tim Eriksen): I'm Going Home
The Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church
Liberty Baptist Church, Henagar, Alabama
Henry Cowell: Ballade from Violin Sonata
Kate Stenberg, violin, Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Traditional American: Amazing Grace
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Kevin Sedatole, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
Ludwig van Beethoven: Four movements from Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor
Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, Massachusetts
Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts, from Old American Songs
Thomas Hampson, baritone, the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
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