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Compact Discoveries 156: Independence Day

Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:30

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Designed for broadcast on or shortly before July 4, this program features off-the-beaten-track music for the occasion, including Morton Gould's American Salute, his "Star-Spangled Overture" from American Ballads; "Celebration - Fourth of July" from Star-Spangled Symphony by Don Gillis; Henri Vieuxtemps' Yankee Doodle Variations; Ruggero Leoncavallo's Yankee March; Three American Dances by Henry Gilbert; The Union by Louis Moreau Gottschalk; and America Medley by Leonard Bernstein.

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Piece Description

Designed for broadcast on or shortly before July 4, this program features off-the-beaten-track music for the occasion, including Morton Gould's American Salute, his "Star-Spangled Overture" from American Ballads; "Celebration - Fourth of July" from Star-Spangled Symphony by Don Gillis; Henri Vieuxtemps' Yankee Doodle Variations; Ruggero Leoncavallo's Yankee March; Three American Dances by Henry Gilbert; The Union by Louis Moreau Gottschalk; and America Medley by Leonard Bernstein.

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Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2009 by Fred Flaxman

Program 156
"Independence Day"

MUSIC: Gould: American Salute performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Theodore Kuchar [Naxos 8.559005, track 20] [4:27] [under the following]

Hello and welcome to the special Independence Day edition of Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman.

The music in the background is by the American composer, Morton Gould. It is called American Salute. It is played, appropriately enough, by the National Symphony Orchestra... of the Ukraine. Well they were undoubtedly less expensive, so we even outsource American music now. The conductor, at least, is an American. His name is Theodore Kuchar.

During this hour you’ll hear -- well first let me tell you what you won’t hear. We won’t be playing...
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