Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
June 26, 2023
A program of American, or American-ish, music, in honor of Independence Day.
Trad., “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”
Dvorak, String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, “American,” final movement
Puccini, “Dovunque al mondo,” from “Madama Butterfly”
Joplin, “Gladiolus Rag”
Gershwin, “Summertime,” from “Porgy and Bess”
Gershwin-Wild, Virtuoso Étude on “Liza”
Copland, “Going to Heaven!”
Wheeler, “Isolation Rag”
Bernstein, “Mambo,” from “West Side Story”
Harbison, “Standards”
Lowry-Copland, “At the River”
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Topics: Music, American Music, Classical Music, Podcasts, independence