On Memorial Day, Discover Classical joins you in honoring those who have given their lives for our country. We invite you to listen to these reflective and patriotic works by great American composers and performers.
Roy Harris: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
John Philip Sousa: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Thomas Knox: American Pageant
Jerry Bilik: American Civil War Fantasy
Charles Ives: Variations on "America"
Warren Benson: Dawn's Early Light
John Williams: Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan
Morton Gould: West Point Symphony
John Philip Sousa: Invincible Eagle
Dan Locklair: Symphony No. 2 "America" II. Memorial Day
Richard Rodgers: Suite from Victory at Sea
David Gillingham: Heroes Lost and Fallen
Dudley Buck: Festival Overture on the American National Air
Charles Ives: Decoration Day
Morton Gould: American Ballads No. 4 "Memorials"
Margaret Buechner: Flight of the American Eagle
William Grant Still: In Memoriam
Peter Boyer: In the Cause of the Free
William Thomas McKinley: Patriotic Variations
William Schuman: New England Triptych No. 1 "Be glad then, America"
Roy Harris: American Creed
John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever