American Song Recital: Works of Bernstein, Hundley, Bowles & Other Composers

American art song American art song has a color and an appeal all its own. Departing from the constraints of late nineteenth-century European traditions to draw from elements of American culture including folk music, jazz, and Broadway composers of American art song have created a large body of literature over the last century that has won great popularity with singers and audiences alike. While requiring the same vocal gifts demanded by Strauss and Wolf, there is an ease to this genre (abetted, perhaps, by the accessibility of texts in English) that may trick listeners into thinking they are not hearing lieder

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American Song Recital - Works of Bernstein, Hundley, Bowles - Album by Fred Weldy & Lauren Wagner - Apple Music

Since the Saxophone Quartet literature is somewhat limited and is not well known, the New Century Saxophone Quartet often turns to arrangements in

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Classical Songbooks of Art Songs

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Capriccio - Symphony of Psalms

No. 14 in Sony's Leonard Bernstein Royal Edition is a CD of American compositions. Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in his own

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Candide Overture / Gershwin: An American in Paris; Rhapsody in Blue Royal Edition No. 14

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List of compositions by Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

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Leonard Bernstein's music: 10 best works by the American maestro - Classic FM

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