Song of America

RADIO SERIES

Song listings with composer / poet, performers, CD label, and CD number:

My Native Land
Charles Ives / Charles Ives adaptation of Heinrich Heine
William Sharp, baritone; Steven Blier, piano
Albany Records TROY 077

A Life in the West
Henry Russell / George Pope Morris
Clifford Jackson, baritone; Peter Basquin, piano
New World Records 80251

Home on the Range
Daniel Kelley, arranged by David Wendel Guion / Dr. Brewster Higley
John Charles Thomas, baritone; orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
Nimbus NI 7838

Erie Canal
Roger Ames, arr. / Traditional
Thomas Hampson, baritone; Armen Guzelimian, piano
EMI Classics 41645 2 8

My Old Kentucky Home
Stephen Foster / Stephen Foster
Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by C. O’Connell
Magnum Music MCCD

Sugar in the Cane
from Blue Mountain Ballads
Paul Bowles / Tennessee Williams
Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano
THM 5432

Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (first movement)
Samuel Barber / James Agee
Leontyne Price, soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Thomas Schippers
RCA Victor 61983

Hell in Texas
Steven Mark Kohn / Traditional
Andrew Garland, baritone; Donna Loewy, piano
Azica B001AGNMBW

The Boatmen’s Dance
from Old American Songs, Set 1
Daniel Decatur Emmett, arranged by Aaron Copland / Daniel Decatur Emmett
Thomas Hampson, baritone; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff
Teldec 77310-2

River Chanty
from Huckleberry Finn or Raft on the River
Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson (based on Mark Twain)
Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano
Arabesque Z6579

The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Charles Ives / Robert Underwood Johnson
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano
Nonesuch 71325

The Lordly Hudson
Ned Rorem / Paul Goodman
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano
Erato 80222

Shenandoah
Stephen White, arr. / Traditional
Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano
TH 5432; track 5