Colors, We Got Colors

Here are two releases reflecting the great eclectic strength of our wonderful nation!

Great American Composers:

01. Aaron Copland - Street in a Frontier Town (1:25)

02. Aaron Copland - Mexican Dance (2:17)

03. Aaron Copland - Gun Battle (2:24)

04. Aaron Copland - Celebration Dance After Billy's Capture (2:05)

05. Aaron Copland - The Open Prairie (1:38)

06. Charles Tomlinson Griffes - The White Peacock (5:51)

07. Morton Gould - Tropical (3:15)

08. Howard Hanson - 01 - Symphony No 2, "Romantic" (14:15)

09. Howard Hanson - 02 - Symphony No 2, "Romantic" (7:05)

10. Howard Hanson - 03 - Symphony No 2, "Romantic" (7:36)

11. Charles Tomlinson Griffes - The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan (11:02)

12. Aaron Copland - Hoe-Down (3:11)

Many of these selections are played at a more rapid clip than you might expect.  But there's indeed a passel of greatness in these here sound waves!

An American Mosaic:

01. Powell - Pretty Sally (2:36)

02. Powell - At the Foot of Yonders Mountain (3:01)

03. Hovahness - Sonata #3 - Prelude (1:11)

04. Hovahness - Sonata #3 - Cantando (3:02)

05. Hovahness - Sonata #3 - Dance (1:26)

06. Hovahness - Sonata #3 - Lullaby (1:50)

07. Hovahness - Sonata #3 - Andante Dolce (0:55)

08. Campbell - Nocturne, Op. 27/2 (10:41)

09. Stringfield - Pastorale Scene (3:59)

10. Stringfield - Chipmunks (3:21)

11. MacDowell - To a Wild Rose (1:49)

12. Kreuzer - Crushed Violets (3:14)

13. Broeders - Milonga (2:15)

14. Broeders - Romanza (2:42)

15. Tillery - Simple Things (3:30)

16. Maganini - Caprice Terpsichore (3:57)

17. Stern - Mosaico (3:36)

18. Spelman - Rondo (8:48)

19. Stringfield - Indian Serenade (3:32)

In this 2001 release, some of this classical music is less melodic than the top album.  But both releases are just a smidgen of the breadth of intriguing, lush, stark, or spare american music.

See you on Monday!