Westport Public Library MOVIE & MUSIC Blog

Today is the Mexican national holiday commemorating the victorious Battle of Puebla on May 5,1862. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican troops defeated the French army of Napoleon III and proved to the world that they could unite and defend themselves from foreign intervention. This anniversary is observed by Mexicans everywhere with dances, songs, parades and parties.

Here are a few suggestions of musical works for celebrating this occasion:

Chanticleer. Mexican Baroque: Music from New Spain

Chavez, Carlos. Complete Symphonies

Copland, Aaron. El Salon Mexico

Gauk, Rachel. Histoire du Tango

Hesperion XX. Entremese del Siglo de Oro: Lope de Vega & Su Tiempo 1550-1650

Kronos Quartet. Nuevo

Mariachi Cobre. XXV Anniversario: 1971-1996

Various Artists. Mexican Favorites

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

"It was new, and ought to have been rehearsed a little more. For some reason or other the queen had the composer hanged, after dinner."

"I suppose there are two kinds of music--one kind which one feels, just as an oyster might, and another sort which requires a higher faculty, a faculty which must be assisted and developed by teaching. Yet if base music gives us wings, why should we want any other?"

"I dislike the opera because I want to love it and can't."

"I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an enitre opera the result has been the next thing to suicide."

"Whenever I enjoy anything in art it means that it is mighty poor. However, my base instinct does bring me profit sometimes; I was the only man out of 3,200 who got his money back on those operas."

If you have never experienced a classical music concert and have always wanted to go, or have negative recollections of a high school performance or Music 101 in college, the concert series Free for All at Town Hall is for you. The next free concert is on Sunday, May 4 at 5:00 p.m. featuring the chamber music group Tashi. Tickets for the concert are distributed at noon on the day of the concert at New York's Town Hall.

When Tashi premiered 35 years ago, they were considered quite extraordinary by championing contemporary music along with the classics and for performing at unlikely venues. As Donal Henahan noted in the August 24, 1974 New York Times, "Peter Serkin and his friends put together a program of happily chosen music, and performed throughout with a rare amalgam of rapturous freedom and stylistic precision."

Sunday's concert will be a reunion for this group and for the piece that brought them together as a chamber music ensemble, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Messiaen's work which was written in and first played in a German prisoner-of-war camp on January 15, 1941, was a product of his wartime experience as a German prisoner-of-war and in his deeply felt religious mysticism. The original artists comprising Tashi, pianist Peter Serkin, violinist Ida Kavafian, cellist Fred Sherry and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman will perform this work. Charles Wuorinen's Ave Maria...Virgo Serena of Josquin des Prez and Christes Crosse of Thomas Morley and Toru Takemitsu's Quatrain II are also on the program.

To help you catch gain an understanding of classica music, the Library has David Pogue's Classical Music for Dummies and Tim Smith's The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music.

Valerie Coleman, flutist and composer, founded the Imani Windwind Quintet ten years ago. She is the two-time laureate of the Young Artist Competition at Boston University where she also received the "Woodwind Award", was recipient of the Aspen Music Festival Wombwell Kentucky Award and was the first winner of the Michelle E. Sahm Memorial Award at the Tanglewood Festival. She serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School of Music Advancement Program and The Interschool Orchestras of New York.

Jeff Scott began studying the french horn at age 14 and was the recipient of a scholarship to the Brooklyn College Preparatory Division. He received his Bachelor's degree from Manhattan School of Music, and Master's Degree from SUNY at Stony Brook and was privileged to study with Jerome Ashby, David Jolley, Scott Brubaker and William Purvis. He has given many workshops and performances under the auspices of Arts Genesis, Young Audiences of New York, and the Midori Foundation. He is a prolific arranger and composer that include scoring the off-Broadway production of Becoming Something, The Canada Lee Story, and many arrangements and original works for various chamber music and jazz groups.

The Imani Winds were awarded he 2007 ASCAP Award, the 2002 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the CMA/WQXR Award for their debut CD Umoja. Their program consists of Valerie Coleman's Suite: Portraits of Josephine, Jeff Scott's Homage to Duke, Julio Medaglia's Suite: Belle Epoque in Sud-Amerka and Valerie Coleman's Libertango.

Gounod, Charles. Romeo et Juliette

Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Prokofiev, Sergey. Romeo and Juliet

Verdi, Giuseppe. Macbeth

Walton, William. Henry V Suite

"Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall"
As You Like It (V, iv, 174)

Here is a list of musical works that may draw you closer to nature and give you an appreciation of its goodness and importance.

Barber, Samuel. String in the Earth and Air

Bridge, Frank. The Sea: Orchestral Suite

Britten, Benjamin. Four Sea Interludes

Chabrier, Emmanuel. Suite Pastorale

Copland, Aaron. The Tender Land

Debussy, Claude. La Mer

Nakai, R. Carlos. Earth Spirit: Native American Flute Music

Rutter, John. For the Beauty of the Earth

Smetana, Bedrich. The Moldau

Strauss, Richard. Alpine Symphony

Tan, Dun. Symphony 1997: Heaven Earth, Mankind

Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Symphony #3 "Pastoral"

A number of tunes are associated with the sport including Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Yankee's Revenge, Baseball Game and Baseball Kids. Richard Adler and Jerry Ross wrote a Faustian themed musical comedy Damn Yankees which ran on Broadway for 1,019 performances in the 1950's. It is noted for its memorable song "Whatever Lola Wants".

1908, the year in which the Westport Public Library opened on the Post Road, is also the year that Take Me Out to the Ballgame was written by Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. Although the composer and lyricist never attended a game, it became the unofficial theme song of the sport.

"Take me out to the ballgame
Take me out with the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."

Today marks the 140th anniversary of the premiere of Brahms' magisterial work A German Requiem, op. 45 (Ein Deutsches Requiem) at the Bremen Cathedral. This work for chorus and orchestra was primarily composed from 1865 to 1867, with the fifth movement added in 1868. It is not considered a conventional requiem mass since it does not utilize the traditional Latin liturgy; it is based on passages from Martin Luther's translation of the Bible. Additionally, its outlook appears to console the mourners rather than concentrating on the dead.

The Library's various recordings of this work include soprano Maria Stader and baritone Otto Wiener, soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau or soprano Dorothea Röschmann and baritone Thomas Quasthoff. For those interested in the life of Brahms, the Library has Hans Gal Johannes Brahms: His Work and Personality, Richard Specht's Johannes Brahms and Jan Swafford's Johannes Brahms: A Biography.

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, which has the world's most comprehensive set of jazz programs, proposed this idea as a way to celebrate the extraordinary heritage of jazz and to encourage everyone to experience it by attending concerts, listening to recordings, reading about it or studying it. Many famous jazz artists were born in April including Johnny Dodds, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Gerry Mulligan, etc.

Tomorrow evening the Westport Arts Center's Jazz to the Max series is featuring Freddie Bryant at the Pequot Library.

The Westport Library is showcasing its collection of jazz books, compact discs and videos with a display on the main level. If you have a favorite artist that is not represented on our shelves, please feel free to contact me.

Since this chamber music group derived its name from the brightest star of the Scorpius constellation, its musical goal is to foster change and search for new concepts and meanings to old formats and works. It strives to play the standards of earlier times along with the novel and unique works of the 20th and 21st centuries. The flexibility and malleability of this ensemble allows it to either add or delete players and span much of the chamber music repertoire. With its innovative interpretation, style and technique, it became the first prize winner of the 2002 Concert Artists Guild International Competition.

Friday's performance features Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Trio in E-flat, James Matheson's Anatomy of Melanchony, Mason Bates' Red River, Bela Bartok's Contrasts and James Matheson's Buzz. The works of James Matheson, a 2000 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship recipient, have been played by the Chicago, Seattle, and Albany Symphonies, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Aspen, Santa Fe and Spoleto music festivals.

He displayed a virtuoustic piano technique marked by intense musicianship; his repertory consisted of his own works and many of the standard pieces by Beethoven, Borodin, Chopin, Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, etc.
He utilized his own abilities and performing skills to write challenging music that explored the full potential and eloquent possibilities of the instrument.

As a young, conservatory student, he published a set of five piano pieces which included the popular Prelude in C-sharp minor. His one act opera Aleko was accepted for performance by the Bolshoi Theater on May 9, 1893. Unfortunately, his first symphony did not receive the acclaim that he sought, and he experienced violent depressions. Eventually he overcame his dejection and inertia and achieved success in the performance of his Piano Concerto #2 with the Moscow Philharmonic on October 27, 1901. He conducted opera at the Moscow Grand Theater while maintaining an active composing and piano recital schedule.

He left Russia in December 1917 and eventually settled in the United States. He celebrated the 30th anniversary of his American debut in 1939 with a three concert set in Philadelphia in which he appeared as composer, conductor and pianist in his three concertos. Although he tried to do a farewell tour in February 1943, he grew frailer and died shortly thereafter.

For further study of Rachmaninoff, the Library has Sergei Bertenson's Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music, Geoffrey Norris' Rakhmaninov and Robert Rimm's The Composer-Pianists: Hamelin and The Eight. His numerous compact discs may be checked out from the Audio-Visual Department.

Jon Nakamatsu, a world-renowned pianist and chamber music artist, was catapulted to fame in June 1997 by winning the Gold Medal in the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 1998, he was named Debut Artist of the Year by NPR's Performance Today. That achievement was capped with a performance of Rhapsody in Blue at President Clinton's White House. Nakamatsu has appeared with numerous American and international orchestras including the the Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.

Edward Pleasant has been seen as Jim in the New York City Opera production Porgy and Bess as well as the Emmy nominated telecast of it on Live from Lincoln Center. He has acted as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Faith Journey, Ben Ross in Freedom Train, Pompey in The Bloomer Girl and Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in Ragtime.

In 1992, Julie-Ann Whitely Green made her New York solo debut at Carnegie Hall. She has appeared in many cathedral performances cities such as London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg and Vienna; she has shared the stage with popular stars like Michael Crawford, Barry Manilow and Barbra Streisand.

If you cannot make it to the concert, be sure to come to the library for recordings of these works and for biographical and critical analysis of George Gershwin.

Richard Drake Saunders' remarks about George Gershwin in The Musical Courier of 1937 are particularly apt:

"An occasional work of his on a programme is all very well, but an entire evening is too much. It is like a meal of chocolate eclairs."

According to the calendar, spring has arrived. Although we are still experiencing the last vestiges of winter's barren, desolate ways, the light and verdure of spring beckon us. Seasonal music allows us to appreciate, cherish and rejoice at nature's miraculous changes of beauty, coloration and serenity.

Here are a few suggestions from the Library's CD collection:

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Brandenburg Concerto #3

Glazunov, Alexander. "Spring" from The Seasons

Grieg, Edvard. "Morning" from Peer Gynt Suite

Haydn, Franz Joseph. The Creation

Mendelssohn, Felix. "Spring" from Songs Without Words

Rossini, Gioachino. William Tell Overture

Schubert, Franz. Die Schone Mullerin

Strauss, Johann Jr. Blue Danube Waltz

Strauss, Richard. "Spring" from Four Last Songs

Vivaldi, Antonio. "Spring" from Four Seasons

"It's the song of a merryman, moping mum,
Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum,
Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb,
As he sighed for the love of a ladye.
Heighdy! Heighdy!
Misery me, lackadaydee!
He sipped no sup, and he craved no crumb,
As he sighed for the love of a ladye."

Arthur Sullivan's memorable melodies beautifully support the lyrics of this work.

This show may be seen from Marchc 14-22, 2008 at St. Luke's Performing Arts Center in New Canaan. For further information about the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Library has Caryl Brahms' Gilbert and Sullivan: Lost Chords and Discords, Alan Jefferson's The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Guide and Geoffrey Smith's The Savoy Operas: A New Guide to Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Hall of Fame recognizes these artists with exhibits, video and interactive presentations and programs. Personal items, a multi-media show that captures defining moments of their careers as well as their signatures engraved on the glass walls of the museum will become part of the permanent collection.

Leonard Cohen's poems and music are represented in the library's collection in Book of Longing, Essential Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat and Songs from a Room. The History of the Dave Clark Five is a two CD set of this group's music. Madonna's eclectic interests are quite evident and include The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples, Desperately Seeking Susan, Evita, I'm Breathless and Ray of Light. John Mellencamp's ballads and rock numbers may be sampled in the CD's Big Daddy, John Mellencamp, and Trouble No More. The Ventures guitar rock inspired many in the 1960's especially with the ubiquitous hit “Hawaii Five-O.”

Chuck Berry reflected on the fun and good times in his 1957 song, "Rock 'n' Roll Music"

"Just let me hear some of that
Rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
It's gotta be rock and roll music
If you want to dance with me
If you want to dance with me"

Since 2007, the Westport Arts Center has endeavored to challenge, educate and entertain us via the Composers Project, a series of concerts and conversations that explore 21st century musical compositions. This year's artists-in-residence are the Antares ensemble comprised of cellist Rebecca Patterson, pianist Eric Huebner, clarinetist Garrick Zoeter and violinist Jesse Mills. These musicians have arranged and conceived the seven concert series and will lead the pre-concert talks with a featured composer. Contemporary artists and composers must have stellar interpretative and technical skills as well as the finesse to establish a dialogue with the audience, foster relationships with schools, and elicit support from the community in order to survive and thrive.

The Peabody Trio, winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, will open the Composers Project on Friday, March 7, 2008 at the Seabury Center at 8:00 p.m. with Zhou Long's Spirit of Chimes, Maurice Ravel's Piano Trio and Franz Schubert's Trio in B-flat major. This trio, made up of violinist Violaine Melancon, cellist Natasha Brofsky and pianist Seth Knopp are members of the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. They have performed at various music festivals including the Cape and Islands, Rockport, Skaneateles and Tanglewood as well as radio programs like CBC, Morning Pro Musica, NPR’s Performance Today and Radio-Canada.

Mr. Long will speak about his ideas and creative process with Ms. Patterson of Antares at the pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m. For those who wish to hear trios by other noted composers, the library offers works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann.

He was born in Sicily on July 24, 1921 and moved to Milan at the age of six; his vocal talents were quickly recognized as he sang in a local choir. After considering a career in the priesthood, he realized that his avocation could become his profession; he studied with baritones Luigi Montesanto and Mariano Stabile until World War II. His voice saved him from serving on the Russian front as he used it to entertain his fellow soldiers and compatriots. With the defeat of Italy, he escaped to Switzerland and pursued an operatic career. In April 1946 he made his debut as Massenet's Des Grieux at Reggio Emilia in Milan. He subsequently repeated this role at the Rome Opera and La Scala with lasting plaudits and glory. EMI engaged him in 1947 as one of their recording stars.

His triumphant February 1948 Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duke in Rigoletto led to a number of noteworthy roles including the title role in Faust, Elvino in La Sonnambula and Wilhelm Meister in Mignon. His rich, expressive tone and impassioned diction were noted in his characterizations as Don José in Carmen, Canio in Pagliacci, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Radames in Aida, Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino and Cavaradossi in Tosca.

His first appearance with the fiery Maria Callas took place in September 1951 in Verdi's La Traviata in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Their celebrated partnership reached its pinnacle in their 1955 performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor under Herbert von Karajan where they repeated the famous sextet. Di Stefano's volatile, unpredictable behavior and vocal problems led to a three year banning from the Metropolitan Opera. In later years, he published a book on opera singing, L’Arte del Canto.

His sonorous tones are well captured in the following excerpt "Salut Demeure" from Faust:

I agree with New York Times columnist, Anthony Tommasini that the orchestra should have chosen a piece by a living American composer. In reviewing the Boston Symphony's monumental appearance in the Soviet Union from September 5 - 10, 1956, I noted that the opening program in Leningrad consisted of Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth Symphony and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2. Piston was a contemporary New England composer and professor of music at Harvard. Surely the Philharmonic could have programmed a 21st century artist like John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis or Lowell Lieberman.

I want to share the comments by Henry B. Cabot, president of the Boston Symphony's trustees, in the July 24, 1955 New York Times.

"We welcome the President's suggestions to help remove the Iron Curtain by a cultural and intellectual exchange with the Soviet Union. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is ready and eager, if the President wishes, to be the first American orchestra to play in Moscow." What I find fascinating in reading this account are the number of famous Russian musicians who greeted the musicians backstage including Dmitri Kabalevsky, Davis Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh, and Aram Khatchaturian. Let's hope that the Philharmonic's act will lead to a peaceful dialogue between the two nations.

In keeping with the 100th birthday celebration of the Westport Public Library, everyone is invited to read L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This book was quite popular in 1908 and has achieved remarkable longevity as a children's tale, a classic movie, a Broadway show, and a study in politics and economics.

We usher in this shared reading experience known as WestportREADS on Saturday, March 1 with a performance by the Flying Monkey Woodwind Quintet at 12:30 p.m. in the great hall. This quintet, which is actually known as the Norwalk Symphony Woodwind Quintet features Kathie Sumrow flute,Tony Marra oboe, James Forgey clarinet, Mary Drake bassoon and Maria Sommer french horn. They will be playing selections from the musical The Wizard of Oz interspersed with classical and popular favorites.

The sonorities of a woodwind quintet are quite unique and may be sampled with Ludwig van Beethoven's Quintet in E-flat Major, Franz Danzi's Wind Quintets, George Perle's Wind Quintets or Solaris' American Quintets. One may also listen to the original movie soundtrack of The Wizard of Oz, the 1998 Broadway production or the 1989 London version.

At a pre-concert talk held at the Norwalk Concert Hall several years ago, Corigliano reminisced about the good times he had in Westport. He mentioned that his father would often go outside and practice the Brahms, Mendelssohn or Tchaikovsky concertos on a hill. What a treat that must have been for the neighbors on Valley Road.

With music in his genes, Corigliano studied composition with Otto Luening at Columbia University. He worked as a music programmer for radio station WQXR, as music director for radio station WBAI, produced records for Columbia Masterworks, worked with Leonard Bernstein on the Young People’s Concerts and taught at the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School and CUNY's Lehman College.

At the age of 26, his Sonata for Violin and Piano won the chamber music competition of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. With this victory came financial support from Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation and lucrative commissions from performing organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, etc.

His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grawemeyer Award, two Grammy awards for Best Contemporary Composition, the Composition of the Year award from the International Music Awards for his opera The Ghosts of Versailles, the Academy Award for the musical score of the The Red Violin, the Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club, the President’s Medal of George Washington University and the Peabody Medal of Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters as well as the American Academy and Institue of Arts and Sciences.

To acquaint yourself with his music, the Library has Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Creations and Other Works, Phantasmagoria and The Red Violin.

Their collaboration with the vaudeville team of Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles led to the production of the Broadway musical, Shuffle Along, which lasted over a year and yielded several touring companies. "Bandanna Days", I'm Just Wild About Harry" and "Love Will Find A Way" proved to be quite popular. Some of the cast members included Josephine Baker, Caterina Jarboro, Florence Mills, Paul Robeson and composer William Grant Still.

Blake's career as a musical comedy writer yielded The Chocolate Dandies, Folies Bergere, Blackbirds of 1930, Shuffle Along of 1933, Swing It, Shuffle Along of 1952 and Bubbling Brown Sugar. He continued writing songs, performing on the vaudeville stage and recording as a piano soloist and with his orchestra from the 1920s-1930s. During World War II, he conducted United Service Organizations shows for the soldiers and retired in 1946.

He gained a new audience in the 1950s and 60s with the ragtime revival as a performer and lecturer. The success of his 1969 album, The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake, led to the establishment of his own record company in 1972 featuring artists Ivan Harold Browning, Novle Sissle and Edith Wilson. Some of the accolades that he received were honorary doctorates from Brooklyn College (1973), Dartmouth College (1974), Rutgers University (1974), the New England Conservatory (1974) and the University of Maryland (1979). His life became the subject of documentary films and the Broadway show, Eubie (1978). Among his achievements were induction into America's Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame, (1979), recipient of the Decoration of Distinguished Civilian Service (1980) and the Presidential Medal of Honor (1981). New York's St. Peter's Church honored him on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1983 with a 24-hour marathon jazz concert.

The month of February has been designated as Black History Month. This celebration and recognition of the achievements and contributions by African-Americans to our country was initiated by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1926. Reflecting the times, it has undergone several name changes including Negro History, Black History, Afro-American History, and African-American History.

African-Americans have been noteworthy composers, creators, performers, and producers of music in American history. Eileen Southern was one of the first scholars to investigate and research the lives of Black musicians from a historical perspective in The Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. Samuel A. Floyd Jr. covers all Black composers in the two volume set International Dictionary of Black Composers. Ray Bonds' The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music gives an overview of the evolution and stories of Black music. Kevin Phinney's Souled America: How Black Music Transformed White Culture describes the psychological and sociological impact and influence of this music on White Americans. La Shanda Katrice Barnett's I Got Thunder is an exploration of songwriting techniques of Black women. Bernice Johnson Reagon's We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African-American Gospel Composers delves into the gospel tradition. Thomas J. Hennessey's From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music 1890-1935 concentrates on that specific period of jazz.

The Library's compact disc collection ranges from classical composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still to jazz greats like John Coltrane and Miles Davis to popular stars like Stevie Wonder and Kanye West. If you would like to suggest an African-American artist to enhance the collection, please contact me.

To create a celebratory, fun-loving, sports-oriented atmosphere prior to the game, I have listed some musical works available at the Westport Public Library:

Brown, James. 20 All -Time Hits

Goldman Band. Greatest Band in the Land!

Ives, Charles Yale-Princeton Football Game

Rossini, Gioacchino. La Gazza Ladra Overture

Rossini, Gioacchino. William Tell Overture

Sibelius, Jean. em>Finlandia

Sousa, John Philip. Sousa

Springsteen, Bruce. Born to Run

Vangelis. Chariots of Fire

Various Performers. Sopranos: Music From the HBO Original Series

Wagner, Richard. Flying Dutchman Overture

Williams, John.