AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #66: Henry Cowell – “Melting Pot”.
Pianist Guy Livingston brings us orchestral music by this little-known American master, Henry Cowell: the grand and bold Thesis Symphony, the ecentric Concerto Piccolo, and the eclectic and cheerful American Melting Pot. In this episode of American Highways, we discover more of Henry Cowell, one of the great American composers, who wrote an astonishing variety of symphonic works – large and small, intimate and bombastic, funny and poignant. An ardent ethnomusicologist, his influences range from Navaho chants to Japanese theater. More at GuyLivingston.com/radio
Theme Music :
Henry Cowell – Symphony #11 “Seven Rituals of Music”
- Vivace
Robert Whitney: Louisville Orchestra
First Edition FECD-0003
Henry Cowell – Thesis: Symphony #15 (1961) 1.I.a. Largo 2. I.b. Andante 3. I.c. Presto 4. I.d. Allegretto 5. I.e.(i) Allegro 6. I.e.(ii) Recapitulation 7. II. Moderato
Robert Whitney: Louisville Orchestra
First Edition FECD-0003
Henry Cowell – 8. Song In The Songless
Mary Ann Hart, Jeanne Golan
Albany Troy 240
Henry Cowell – American Melting Pot (1940) 9. Air (African-American) 10. Alapria (Oriental-American) 11. Chorale (Teutonic-American) 12. Rhumba (Latin-American) 13. Satire (French-American) 14. Slavic Dance (Slavic-American) 15. Square Dance (Celtic-American)
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Richard Auldon Clark
Koch 3-7220-2 HI
Henry Cowell – Concerto Piccolo 16. I 17. II 18. III
Conductor – Michael Stern; Orchestra – Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken; Piano – Stefan Litwin
Col Legno – WWE 1CD 20064
