The American Spirit: Roots and Transformations

Bacon:

Ford’s Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Boyer:

Ellis Island: The Dream of America

Blair Brown (actor), Louis Zorich (actor), Olympia Dukakis (actor), Eli Wallach (actor), Bebe Neuwirth (actor), Barry Bostwick (actor), Anne Jackson (actor)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Peter Boyer

Copland:

Lincoln Portrait

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Gould, M:

Lincoln Legend

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Harris, Roy:

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (for mezzo-soprano and piano trio)

Anthony LaMarchina (cello), Roger Wiesmeyer (piano), Sharon Mabry (mezzo-soprano) & Mary Kathryn Van Osdale (violin)

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Ives, C:

Lincoln, The Great Commoner

Nashville Symphony Chorus & Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Lokumbe:

Dear Mrs Parks

Janice Chandler-Eteme (soprano), Jevetta Steele (mezzo-soprano), Kevin Deas (bass) & Taylor Gardner (child soprano)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Brazeal Dennard Chorale & Rackham Symphony Choir,, Thomas Wilkins

McKay, G F:

To a Liberator (A Lincoln Tribute)

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Persichetti:

A Lincoln Address

Barry Scott (narrator)

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin

Thomson, V:

The Plow that Broke the Plains

Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez

The River (1937)

Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez

Turok:

Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty

Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin