Memorial Day Music

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.

6 AM Hour

Roy Harris: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
John Philip Sousa: Hail to the Spirit of Liberty

7 AM Hour

Thomas Knox: American Pageant
Jerry Bilik: American Civil War Fantasy

8 AM Hour

Charles Ives: Variations on "America"
Warren Benson: Dawn's Early Light

9 AM Hour

John Williams: Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan
Morton Gould: West Point Symphony

10 AM Hour

John Philip Sousa: Invincible Eagle
Dan Locklair: Symphony No. 2 "America" II. Memorial Day

11 AM Hour

Richard Rodgers: Suite from Victory at Sea

12 PM Hour

David Gillingham: Heroes Lost and Fallen

1 PM Hour

Dudley Buck: Festival Overture on the American National Air
Charles Ives: Decoration Day

2 PM Hour

Morton Gould: American Ballads No. 4 "Memorials"
Margaret Buechner: Flight of the American Eagle

3 PM Hour

William Grant Still: In Memoriam
Peter Boyer: In the Cause of the Free

4 PM Hour

William Thomas McKinley: Patriotic Variations
William Schuman: New England Triptych No. 1 "Be glad then, America"

5 PM Hour

Roy Harris: American Creed
John Philip Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever