Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
July 01, 2020
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In honor of Independence Day, Jay does an all American program: ending with “Plenty Good Room,” the spiritual. He begins with some ballet, cowboy style: “Hoe Down” (Copland). Along the way, we have songs, piano pieces, an aria, some bluegrass—Happy Fourth, to all.
Copland, “Hoe-Down,” from “Rodeo”
MacDowell, “By a Meadow Brook,” from “Woodland Sketches”
Beach, “Ah, Love, but a Day”
Wheeler, Scott, “Isolation Rag”
Hoiby, “Lady of the Harbor”
Meyer, Edgar, et al. (?), “Death by Triple Fiddle”
Floyd, “Ain’t It a Pretty Night?” from “Susannah”
Gershwin-Heifetz, Prelude in C-sharp Minor
Trad., “Plenty Good Room”
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Topics: Music, Classical Music, Copland, Music for a While