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The Great War : classical and popular selections from the time of World War I
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- NPR's Performance today
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- English, German
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- Publication
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- New York, NY : Sony Classical, [1999]
- ℗1999
- Series
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- 1 online resource (1 sound file)
- digital
- audio file
- OCLC
- ocn941808212
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Featured on National Public Radio's Performance today.
- Selections originally released by Columbia, 1917-1997.
- Recorded 1917-1996.
- Classical music (1901-1925). Before the war-- Pomp and circumstance : military march no. 1 in D major, op. 39 / Sir Edward Elgar (New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor). Waltz from Der Rosenkavalier suite / Richard Strauss (Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy, conductor). Von der Schönheit : from Das Lied von der Erde / Gustav Mahler (Lili Chookaskian, mezzo-soprano; Philadelphia Orchestra; Ormandy). De l'aube à midi sur la mer : from La mer / Claude Debussy (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor) ; During the war-- Symphony no. 1 in D major, op. 25 : Classical symphony. III., Gavotta, non troppo allegro / Sergei Prokofiev (London Symphony Orchestra; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor). L'histoire du soldat : suite. The royal march ; The little concert / Igor Stravinsky (Columbia Chamber Ensemble; Stravinsky, conductor). Le tombeau de Couperin. Menuet ; Toccata / Maurice Ravel (Robert Casadesus, piano) ; After the war-- Sinfonia from Pulcinella suite / Igor Stravinsky (Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Stravinsky). Walzer from Fünf Klavierstücke, op. 23 / Arnold Schoenberg (Glenn Gould, piano). Interlude from Wozzeck, act III / Alban Berg (Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Thomas Schippers, conductor). Prologue from Music for the theatre / Aaron Copland (New York Philharmonic; Bernstein) -- Popular music (1908-1928). Before the war-- Shine on harvest moon / music, Jack Norworth & Nora Bayes ; lyrics, Jack Norworth (Hal Kemp and his orchestra). Alexander's ragtime band / Irving Berlin (Ted Lewis and his orchestra) ; During the war-- Over there / George M. Cohan (Arthur Fields, vocals; with orchestra) ; After the war-- How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm (after they've seen Paree)? / music, Walter Donaldson ; lyrics, Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young (Nora Bayes, vocals; with orchestra). The man I love : from Strike up the band / music, George Gershwin ; lyrics, Ira Gershwin (Vaughn DeLeath, vocals; Fred Rich and his Hotel Astor Orchestra). West End blues / Joseph Oliver & Clarence Williams (Louis Armstrong, trumpet, scatting)