01. Musiker - Shenandoah (3:01)
02. Gorney - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (3:34)
03. Rorem - Early in the Morning (1:42)
04. Rorem - The Lordly Hudson (2:15)
05. Scheer - At Howard Hawks' House (2:40)
06. Scheer - Holding Each Other (3:39)
07. Niles - The Lass from the Low Countree (3:16)
08. Musto - Recuerdo (4:28)
09. Barber - Nocturne (4:05)
10. Barber - Sure on This Shining Night (2:21)
11. Bolcom - Fur (2:31)
12. Bolcom - Over the Piano (3:10)
13. Bolcom - Black Max (as Told by the de Kooning Boys) (3:03)
14. Ives - Slugging a Vampire (0:30)
15. Ives - Two Little Flowers (and Dedicated to Them) (1:19)
16. Ives - General William Booth Enters into Heaven (5:16)
17. Hoiby - The Lamb (3:09)
18. Niles/Horton - I Wonder as I Wander (2:58)
19. Copland - At the River (3:13)
20. Copland - Long Time Ago (2:45)
21. Scheer - Lean Away (4:59)
22. Scheer - American Anthem (4:00)
I don't mean to damn with faint praise, but my overall experience was that this CD was an education, not an inspiration. The America depicted here is more art song than ragtime, in my view.
But it's nevertheless one of the panes in this wacky stained-glass window we call America! See you Monday for our final week of this year's July Spockebration!
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