American Landscapes is a weekly sampling of the best of American music, hosted by Michael Campion. You'll hear works by composers such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick and many others. The program presents familiar music that never gets old, music to get reacquainted with and music that you'll be hearing for the first time.
Rhapsodies and Tone Poems
Frederick Converse: Clarinet Rhapsody
Horatio Parker: Suite for Piano Trio
Leo Sowerby: Theme in Yellow
Jerome Kern: Mark Twain Portrait
Winds and Brass
William Perry: Brass from the Past
Charles Loeffler: The Lone Prairie
Barbara Harbach: Sounds of St. Louis
Janet Axelrod and Joshua Rosenblum: Touch and Go
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
John Philip Sousa: Showing Off Before Company
Commemorative Music
Robert Russell Bennett: Commemoration Symphony
Fred Hersch: Lyric Piece
Kenneth Fuchs: Glacier
William Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 2 (excerpts)
Oliver Caplan: Lunastella Fuga