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.
American Pioneers
John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 1 - IV.
Arthur Foote: Piano Quartet, Op. 23 - I.
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3 - II.
Amy Beach: Pastorale
George Chadwick: Symphony No. 3 - III.
Edward MacDowell: To a Water Lily and The Joy of Autumn
Edgar Stillman Kelley: Aladdin - Aladdin's Wedding
American Light Music
Arthur Pryor: The Whistler and His Dog
Morton Gould: Pavanne
David Rose: Holiday for Strings
Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday and Clarinet Candy
Felix Arndt: Nola - A Silhouette
Victor Herbert: Babes in Toyland - March of the Toys
John W. Bratton: The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Raymond Scott: The Toy Trumpet
Ethelbert Nevin: Narcissus
George Gershwin: Promenade - Walking the Dog
Meditations and Prayers
Alan Hovhaness: The Prayer of St. Gregory
Kurt Bestor: The Prayer of the Children
Morton Gould: American Ballads - Memorials
Alan Bern: Reb Itzik's Nign
James DeMars: An American Requiem - Memorial Prayer
Paul Creston: Corinthians XIII
John Williams: Song for World Peace