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 Academics
David Maslanka: Procession of the Academics
Ruth Crawford Seeger: American Folk Tunes
Paul Bowles: Music for a Farce
Kimberly Archer: Symphony No.3
Henry Cowell: American Country Set
Halloween Music
George W. Chadwick: Tam O'Shanter -- Symphonic Ballad
Michael Daugerty: Philadelphia Stories -- The Tell-Tale Harp
Edgar Stillman Kelley: The Headless Horseman
Bernard Herrmann: Suite from The Day the Earth Stood Still
Edward MacDowell: In a Haunted Forest
Overtures, Concertos, and Rags
J. A. C. Redford: Musika Festival Overture
Ronn Yedidia: Nocturne
Ulysses Kay: Concerto for Orchestra
Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners and Pineapple Rag
Deon Nielsen Price: Agápi kai Chará
American Seasons
Mark O'Connor: American Seasons
Jonathan Leshnoff: String Quartet No. 1
Henry Hadley: Symphony No. 2 "The Four Seasons"
Morton Gould: Burchfield Gallery
Rick Sowash: Four Seasons in Bellville
Dan Locklair: Symphony of Seasons