An American Celebration / New York Philharmonic

An American Celebration / New York Philharmonic
A LIMITED EDITION 10-CD SET
Catalog#: 9904
DIGITALLY REMASTERED
Release Date: 10/1/99

This set contains both monaural and stereo recordings. It also includes two companion books providing contemporary program notes, complete texts and translations, interviews with composers and performers by Robert Sherman, artist biographies, a New York Philharmonic American composer timeline from 1842-1999, previously unpublished photographs and essays by Alan Rich and Sedgwick Clark.

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION

VOLUME 1

Composer	Title (note or soloist)	Conductor	Perf. Date
Disc 1
Copland Chadwick MacDowell Griffes Schelling Ives	Fanfare for the Common Man Melpomene Overture "Indian" Suite (three movements) The White Peacock A Victory Ball Three Places in New England	Masur Bernstein Bernstein Hanson Rodzinski Masur	1997 1958 1958 1946 1945 1994
Disc 2
Copland Varèse Loeffler Bloch Gershwin	Music for the Theatre Intégrales Memories of My Childhood Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Hendl) An American in Paris	Leinsdorf Bernstein Barbirolli Munch Rodzinski	1985 1966 1936 1948 1944
Disc 3
Hanson Thomson Copland Ruggles Copland	Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") Four Saints in Three Acts, Acts III & IV (Allen, Boatwright, Venora, Voketaitis, Eckert) El Salón México Sun-treader Prairie Journal	Hanson Bernstein Cantelli Masur Mehta	1946 1960 1955 1994 1985
Disc 4
Harris Barber Herrmann Still Hanson Copland	Third Symphony Essay No. 1 The Devil and Daniel Webster Suite Old California Serenade for Solo Flute, Harp, & Strings (Wummer, Cella) Lincoln Portrait (Warfield)	Bernstein Szell Stokowski Monteux Stokowski Bernstein	1957 1950 1949 1944 1949 1976
Disc 5
Copland Creston Cowell Schuman	Appalachian Spring Suite Symphony No. 2 Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2 Symphony No. 6	Rodzinski Monteux Paray Bernstein	1945 1956 1956 1958

VOLUME 2

Composer	Title (note or soloist)	Conductor	Perf. Date
Disc 1
Ellington- Marsalis Bernstein Schuller Mennin Copland	A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Lincoln Center jazz Orchestra/Marsalis) Serenade for Violin (Dicterow) Dramatic Overture Concertato (Moby Dick) Orchestral Variations	Masur Slatkin Mitropoulos Bernstein Bernstein	1999 1990 1957 1963 1958
Disc 2
Bernstein Gould Barber Diamond Rorem	Candide Overture Dance Variations (Whittemore & Lowe) Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance The World of Paul Klee Symphony No. 3	No conductor Mitropoulos Mitropoulos Lipkin Bernstein	1992 1953 1956 1960 1959
Disc 3
Foss Copland Carter Crumb	Introductions and Good-Byes (Reardon) Nonet for Strings Concerto for Orchestra Star-Child (Gubrud)	Bernstein Steinberg Boulez Boulez	1960 1964 1975 1977
Disc 4
Hovhaness Druckman Tower Reich	To Vishnu Lamia (DeGaetani) Sequoia Tehillim (Baird, Bensman, Bryden, Wheeler)	Kostelanetz Boulez Mehta Mehta	1967 1975 1982 1982
Disc 5
Adams Rouse Zwilich Bolcom Sousa	Short Ride in a Fast Machine Trombone Concerto (Alessi) Symphony No. 3 Clarinet Concerto (Drucker) The Stars and Stripes Forever	Masur Slatkin Ling Slatkin Toscanini	1991 1992 1993 1992 1944