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An American Celebration

A Limited Edition 10-CD Set Digitally Remastered
Price: $ 185.00

"These are exciting musical documents, performed live in concert, that pay tribute not only to the composers and their work but to the virtuoso musicians of this remarkable Orchestra."
--Kurt Masur, Music Director

"I have no doubt that American music aficionados will revel in these vital performances, and those unacquainted with the wide range of American music in the 20th century will be surprised at the richness and beauty that has escaped them thus far."
--Sedgwick Clark (Producer), Editor of Musical America

"It is fitting that the orchestra that has been in continuous operation for two-thirds of our nation's existence should now document and enjoy its enduring kinship to American music. In presenting New York Philharmonic: An American Celebration, we continue to expand the range of possibilities for the next millennium, to commemorate the past, and imagine the future."
--Deborah Borda, Executive Director
10-CD Set with 2 Companion Booklets
The new 10-CD collection encompasses the dramatic range of more than a century of American music -- from Chadwick's romantic Melpomene Overture, first performed by the Philharmonic in 1896 and preserved in this set in a performance led by Leonard Bernstein in 1958, to the world-premiere performance of Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, led by Artur Rodzinski in 1945, to Zwilich's Symphony No. 3, commissioned for the Philharmonic's 150th anniversary in 1992, to a new arrangement by Wynton Marsalis of Duke Ellington's A Tone Parallel to Harlem in 1999.


FEATURES   more
  10 compact discs
  13 hours of music  
  49 live performances, many of them live broadcasts, recorded 1936-1999  
  39 composers  
  13 world premieres  
  11 "new" Bernstein performances (recordings not previously released commercially)  
  21 conductors  
  16 vocal soloists  
  7 instrumental soloists  
  Encore: Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever led by Toscanini in 1944  
  2 companion books, totaling 500 pages, 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, never-before-published photographs, and essays by Alan Rich and Sedgwick Clark.  

VOLUME 1
DISC 1
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Masur, 1997
Chadwick
Melpomene Overture
Bernstein, 1958
MacDowell
"Indian" Suite (three movements)
Bernstein, 1958
Griffes
The White Peacock
Hanson, 1946
Schelling
A Victory Ball
Rodzinski, 1945
Ives
Three Places in New England
Masur , 1994
DISC 2
Copland
Music for the Theatre
Leinsdorf, 1985
Varése
Intégrales
Bernstein, 1966
Loeffler
Memories of My Childhood
Barbirolli, 1936
Bloch
Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Hendl)
Munch, 1948
Gershwin
An American in Paris
Rodzinski, 1944
DISC 3
Hanson
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic")
Hanson, 1946
Thomson
Four Saints in Three Acts, Acts III & IV
Bernstein, 1960
Copland
(Allen, Boatwright, Venora, Voketaitis, Eckert)
Cantelli, 1955
Ruggles
El Salón México
Masur, 1994
Copland
Sun-treader Prairie Journal
Mehta, 1985
DISC 4
Harris
Third Symphony
Bernstein, 1957
Barber
Essay No. 1
Szell, 1950
Herrmann
The Devil and Daniel Webster Suite
Stokowski, 1949
Still
Old California
Monteux, 1944
Hanson
Serenade for Solo Flute, Harp, & Strings (Wummer, Cella)
Stokowski, 1949
Copland
Lincoln Portrait (Warfield)
Bernstein , 1976
DISC 5
Copland
Appalachian Spring Suite
Rodzinski, 1945
Creston
Symphony No. 2
Monteux, 1956
Cowell
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2
Paray, 1956
Schuman
Symphony No. 6
Bernstein, 1958
VOLUME 2
DISC 1
Ellington-Marsalis
A Tone Parallel to Harlem
Masur, 1999
Bernstein
Serenade for Violin (Dicterow)
Slatkin, 1999
Schuller
Dramatic Overture
Mitropoulos, 1957
Menin
Concertato (Moby Dick)
Bernstein, 1963
Copland
Orchestral Variations
Bernstein, 1958
DISC 2
Bernstein
Candide Overture
No Conductor, 1992
Gould
Dance Variations (Whittemore & Lowe)
Mitropoulos, 1953
Barber
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Mitropoulos, 1956
Diamond
The World of Paul Klee
Lipkin, 1960
Rorem
Symphony No. 3
Bernstein, 1959
DISC 3
Foss
Introductions and Good-Byes(Reardon)
Bernstein, 1960
Copland
Nonet for Strings
Steinberg, 1964
Carter
Concerto for Orchestra
Boulez, 1975
Crumb
Star-Child (Gubrud)
Boulez, 1977
DISC 4
Hovhaness
To Vishnu
Kostelanetz, 1967
Druckman
Lamia (DeGaetani)
Boulez, 1975
Tower
Sequoia
Mehta, 1982
Reich
Tehillim (Baird, Bensman, Bryden, Wheeler)
Mehta, 1982
DISC 5
Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Masur, 1991
Rouse
Trombone Concerto (Alessi)
Slatkin, 1992
Zwilich
Symphony No. 3
Ling, 1993
Bolcom
Clarinet Concerto (Drucker)
Slatkin, 1992
Sousa
The Stars and Stripes Forever
Toscanini, 1944

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