AMERICAN CLASSICS

 

COMPACT DISC ONE

 

Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Duke Ellington Do Nothin’Till You Hear From Me

John Philip Sousa The Stars and Stripes Forever

George Gershwin ‘Promenade’ from Walking the Dog

Duke Ellington ‘Giggling Rapids’ from The River

Leonard Bernstein ‘Riffs’ from Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Duke Ellington Solitude

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Gian Carlo Menotti Pavane from Sebastian

Morton Gould Gospel Train

Duke Ellington ‘Meander’ from The River

William Grant Still Mvt II from Symphony No.2

(Song of a New Race)

John Philip Sousa Washington Post

George Gershwin Girl Crazy Overture

John Philip Sousa Liberty Bell

 

 

COMPACT DISC TWO

 

George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Anon Steal Away to Jesus (American Spiritual)

George Gershwin Summertime

Samuel Barber ‘Must the winter come so soon?’

from Vanessa

George Gershwin ‘Porgy Sings’ from Catfish Row

Steve Reich Nagoya Marimbas

William Grant Still Mvt III from Symphony No. 1

(Afro-American)

Samuel Barber Intermezzo from Vanessa

Leonard Bernstein ‘America’ from West Side Story

George Gershwin ‘It ain’t Necessarily So’ from Porgy and Bess

Aaron Copland Mvt II from Concerto for Clarinet

Duke Ellington ‘Riba’ from The River

Aaron Copland ‘Simple Gifts’ from Old American Songs, Set I

Leonard Bernstein ‘Blues’ from Divertimento

George Gershwin Strike up the Band Overture

 

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