With Praise and Thanksgiving #1446
…in anticipation of our thoroughly American holiday, these works by some thoroughly American composers.
Hour 1
GERRE HANCOCK: Fanfare on Antioch; A Laredo Fanfare –Todd Wilson (Aeolian-Skinner/St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York, NY) Raven 951
ROY SPAULDING STOUGHTON: The Courts of Jamshyd, fr Persian Suite –Mary Gifford (1882 Steere & Turner/Pullman United Methodist Church, Pullman, IL) Giffitz 001
NORBERTO GUINALDO: Thanksgiving & Harvest: 4 Pieces for Organ (We thank you, Lord of Heaven; I praise the earth in beauty seen; Cut down the golden wheat; We gather together) –Norberto Guinaldo (1963 Reuter/1st United Methodist Church, Garden Grove, CA) Pipedreams Archive (r. 4/23/13)
HOWARD HANSON: The Cherubic Hymn –Gloriae Dei Cantores/Elizabeth Patterson, director; James E. Jordan (Skinner/Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, MA) GDCD 048
LEO SOWERBY: Toccata –Richard K. Fitzgerald (1964 Möller-2001 Goulding & Wood/Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC) Pipedreams Archive (r. 8/18/2008)
Hour 2
CHARLES CALLAHAN: Simple Gifts –Gregory Butler, piano; David Palmer (1927-1994 Casavant/Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Toronto, Canada) Palmer 2008
WILBUR HELD: That Lonesome Valley –Robert Murray, violin; Ardyth Lohuis (1954 Austin/Reveille United Methodist Church, Richmond, VA) Raven 923
CHARLES IVES (trans. Faber): Old Folks Gatherin’, fr Symphony No. 3 –The King’s Brass; Samuel Metzger (1974 Ruffattti/Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL) Summit 428
RONALD ARNATT: Sarabande with Variations –Elizabeth and Raymond Chenault (1989 Möller/Roswell United Methodist Church, Roswell, GA) Gothic 49043
HAMPSON A. SISLER: Rondo Symphonique, Fugue and Epilogue –Ukraine National Symphony/Arkady Leytush, conductor; Valery Michailuk (1996 Späth/Lysenko Concert Hall, Kiev, Ukraine) MSR Classics 1229
ALEXANDER SCHREINER: Lyric Interlude –David Kinyon (1968 Aeolian-Skinner/2nd Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN) DK 9801
TIMOTHY TIKKER: Toccata Kopanitsa –Brad Hughley (2003 Rosales/St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA) Raven 930
Enjoy these other programs from the PIPEDREAMS Archive featuring American composers and/or the topic of Thanksgiving:
The American Influence (#1423)
An American Organist’s Christmas (#1251)
The American Muse (#1247)
Variations on America (#1225)
In Praise and Thanksgiving (#0947)
The American Muse (#0349)
