Dvor̿ák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots / by Peress, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…Antonin Dvor̿ák comes to America -- America and Negro music -- Dvor̿ák's symphony "From the New World" -- The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- The National Conservatory of Music of America -- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Clorilindy, and "The talented tenth" -- James Reese Europe -- George Gershwin and African American music -- Leonard Bernstein -- Gershwin's "Rhapsody in blue" -- The Clef Club concert -- Will Marion Cook -- George Antheil's "Ballet mécanique" -- Bernstein's Mass -- Duke Ellington -- Ellington's "Queenie pie" -- Ellington's "Black, brown and beige".…”
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American string quartets 1900-1950.

Table of Contents: “…Quartet no. 3 / William Schuman (23:47) -- Quartet in one movement, op. 23 / Howard Hanson (17:47) -- Quartet no. 2 / Virgil Thomson (22:16) -- Lullaby for string quartet / George Gershwin (11:24) -- Quartet no. 2 / Roger Sessions (32:19) -- Scherzo for 2 violins, viola and cello / Charles Ives (1:45) -- Quartet no. 2 / Peter Mennin (17:29) -- Quartet no. 5 / Walter Piston (16:33) -- Two pieces for string quartet / Aaron Copland (8:50).…”
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The 58th annual midwest clinic, 2004 : Los Angeles Pierce Symphonic Winds.

Table of Contents: “…Gillingham -- Windsor processional / Charles Fernandez -- The Worried drummer / Adolph Schriener; Eric Osterling (Ray Frisby, percussion) -- The Happy Hungarian / David Shaffer -- A Gershwin fantasy / George Gershwin; Ralph Martino -- New Mexico march / John Philip Sousa -- Aspen jubilee / Ron Nelson (Maura Piazza, mezzo-soprano) -- Retratos do Brasil (Brazilian portraits) / Hundson Nogueira.…”
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Talkin' Verve by Schifrin, Lalo

Table of Contents: “…Slaughter on Tenth Avenue / Richard Charles Rodgers (3:14) -- Prelude # 2 / George Gershwin (5:00) -- The chains (9: 04) ; Old laces (4:21) ; Samba para dos (10:03) / Lalo Schifrin -- El salon Mexico / Aaron Copland (4:52) -- New fantasy / Larry Greene (2:17) -- The empire (7:25) ; The fakir (3:16) ; The wave (2:40) ; Chorale (5:42) / Lalo Schifrin -- Peanut vendor / Moises Simons (6:01).…”
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The King's Singers /

Table of Contents: “…The peanut vendor (2:40) -- Shenandoah (3:24) -- Cherry ripe (2:43) -- Summertime / George Gershwin (2:21) -- Time was (2:50) -- Scarborough Fair (3:28) -- None but the lonely heart / Tchaikovsky (2:52) -- Linstead market (2:16) -- The oak and the ash (2:54) -- Wives and lovers / Burt Bacharach (2:21) -- Blow away the morning dew (2:01) -- The green leaves of summer / Dimitri Tiomkin (2:59) -- What kind of things / Ron Goodwin (1:54).…”
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Encore!

Table of Contents: “…Fete Polonaise / Emmanuel Chabrier -- Kamarinskaya / Mikhail Glinka -- Andante festivo / Jean Sibelius -- Valse Fantaisie / Mikhail Glinka -- Minuetto / Giovanni Bolzoni -- Humoresque Op. 101, no. 7 / Antonin Dvorak -- Valse melancolique / Emil Darzins -- Solitude / Duke Ellington -- Romance / Dmitri Shostakovich -- Gopak / Modeste Mussorgsky -- Clair de Lune / Claude Debussy -- Abendlied Op. 107, no. 6 / Robert Schumann -- Aria / Janis Medins -- Promenade: Walking the dog / George Gershwin -- The Stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa.…”
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Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra / by Lee, Douglas A.

Table of Contents: “…John Adams -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Alban Berg -- Leonard Bernstein -- Benjamin Britten -- Aaron Copland -- John Corigliano -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Manuel de Falla -- George Gershwin -- Alberto Ginastera -- Henryk Górecki -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Zoltán Kodály -- Witold Lutosławski -- Darius Milhaud -- Carl Nielsen -- Carl Orff -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Igor Stravinsky -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- William Walton -- Anton Webern.…”
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Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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The Gershwin years. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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Gershwin plays Gershwin the piano rolls /

Ella Fitzgerald sings the George and Ira Gershwin song book by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Table of Contents: “…Promenade : (Walking the dog) (2:31) ; March of the Swiss soldiers (2:04) ; Fidgety feet (2:46) / George Gershwin -- The preludes. Prelude I (1:36) ; Prelude II (3:48) ; Prelude III (1:13) / George Gershwin -- Sam and Delilah (3:15) -- But not for me (3:31) -- My one and only (2:36) -- Let's call the whole thing off (4:26) -- (I've got) beginner's luck (3:08) --…”

Library pak : 10 clarinet quartets / by Curtis, Mike, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Tambourine dance / Joaquin Valverde -- Credo from Missa O quam gloriosum est regnum / Tomás Victoria -- Miserlou / traditional -- Cuarteto Santa Cruz / Mike Curtis -- Adagio from Concerto in F / George Gershwin -- Bulgarian medley. Ivan na Donka Dumase ; Hristianova kopanitsa / traditional -- Renaissance suite. …”

The Virtuoso Clarinet /

Table of Contents: “…Verdi / composed by Donato Lovreglio -- Three Preludes / composed by George Gershwin -- Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 / composed by Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov -- Grand Duo concertant, Op. 48 / composed by Carl Maria von Weber -- Carmen Fantasy / composed by Franz Waxman, Georges Bizet.…”
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Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin -- Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie.…”

Ella Fitzgerald sings the George and Ira Gershwin song book. by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

Table of Contents: “…Promenade : (Walking the dog) (2 :31) ; March of the Swiss soldiers (2:04) ; Fidgety feet (2:46) / George Gershwin -- The preludes. Prelude I (1:36) ; Prelude II (3:48) ; Prelude III (1:13) / George Gershwin -- Sam and Delilah (3:15) -- But not for me (3:31) -- My one and only (2:36) -- Let's call the whole thing off (4: 26) -- (I've got) beginner's luck (3:08).…”
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An American in Paris

Table of Contents: “…An American in Paris / George Gershwin ; [arr. by] Hiroshi Hoshina (17:55) -- The Wiz / Charlie Smalls ; [arr. by] Bob Lowden (5:55) -- Blues for a killed kat / Jack End (4:43) -- Broadway curtain time (Hello, Dolly! …”

So much to tell : Copland, Barber,Gershwin.

Table of Contents: “…; The chariot / Aaron Copland (21:13) -- Knoxville, summer of 1915 : opus 24 / Samuel Barber ; words by James Agee (14:20) -- Serenade for strings, op. 1 / Samuel Barber (9:35) -- Embraceable you ; By Strauss ; I've got a crush on you / George Gershwin ; arranged by Adrian Williams ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin (15:03).…”
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Come with me / by Maria, Tania

Table of Contents: “…Sangria / Tania Maria Correa Reis (3:50) --Embraceable you / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (5:48) -- Lost in Amazonia / Tania Maria Correa Reis (5:08) --Come with me / Tania Maria Correa Reis, Regina Werneck (5:38) -- Sementes, graines & seeds / Tania Maria Correa Reis (6:20) -- Nega / Tania Maria Correa Reis, Regina Werneck (4:06) -- Euzinha / Tania Maria Correa Reis (6:27) -- It's all over now / Tania Maria Correa Reis, Regina Werneck (5:16).…”
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays love songs.

Table of Contents: “…Theme from A Summer Place / Max Steiner -- Blue velvet / Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris -- True love / Cole Porter -- The summer knows / Michel Legrand -- When I fall in love / Victor Young -- Hopelessly devoted to you / John Farrar -- Arthur's theme (the best that you can do) / Christopher Cross -- True love ways / Buddy Holly -- Pachelbel canon in D major, T. 337 / John Pachelbel -- The sound of silence / Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel -- Someone to watch over me / George Gershwin -- People / Jule Styne -- Evergreen / Barbara Joan Streisand.…”
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Rhapsody in blue An American in Paris / by Gershwin, George, 1898-1937