Compact Discoveries 83: New York, New York
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:57:51
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The hour includes selections from the film score to the Woody Allen movie, Manhattan, with music by George Gershwin; Gershwin's New York Rhapsody; Rodgers and Hart's song, Manhattan; and New York-inspired music by American composers John Kander, Vernon Duke, and John Philip Sousa. The program concludes with New York Skyline by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
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The hour includes selections from the film score to the Woody Allen movie, Manhattan, with music by George Gershwin; Gershwin's New York Rhapsody; Rodgers and Hart's song, Manhattan; and New York-inspired music by American composers John Kander, Vernon Duke, and John Philip Sousa. The program concludes with New York Skyline by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Transcript
Program 83
"New York, New York"
MUSIC: clip from the main theme to Kander's New York, New York performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by John Williams [Philips 80002606-02, CD 2, track 2] [under the following]
Welcome to Compact Discoveries. I'm your guide, Fred Flaxman, and for the next hour we're going to explore music inspired by the city of New York. Stay with me and you'll hear the wonderfully orchestrated selections from the film score to the Woody Allen movie, Manhattan, with music by George Gershwin and a performance by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Then you'll hear Gershwin's New York Rhapsody from the 1931 movie "Delicious." The third selection will be the music to Rodgers and Hart's song, Manhattan, with Skitch Henderson conducting the New York Pops. Following that we'll listen to New York-inspired music by American composers John Kander, Ver...
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