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July 2, 2010
Fiddle-Free Fireworks
The Master General of the Ordnance told the Comptroller of His Majesty's Fireworks in 1749, that "the King objected to there being any musick, but when I told him the quantity and number of (trumpets and drums) martial musick there was to be, he was better satisfied, and said he hoped there would be no fiddles." George Frideric Handel got wind of that, and left the fiddles out of his Royal Fireworks Music. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Herbert Blomstedt give a performance, in honor of the 4th of July holiday.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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William Grant Still
Third movement from Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, conductor
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William Grant Still
First movement from Folk Suite No. 4 for Flute, Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
Leonard Garrison, flute, Robert Umiker, clarinet, Samuel Magill, cello, Arthur Tollefson, piano
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John Stafford Smith
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Maurice Ravel
Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloe
The Academy Festival Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conductor
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California
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John Philip Sousa
The Washington Post March
The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
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Traditional
All the Pretty Horses
Jessye Norman, soprano, and friends
Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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George Frideric Handel
Royal Fireworks Music
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
hour 2
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Amy Beach
Dance of the Flowers, from Trois Morceaux Caracteristiques, Op. 28
Joanne Polk, piano
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Igor Stravinsky
Fireworks
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor
The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Traditional
Jig Medley: Bishop of Chester's Jig, Foxhunter's Jig, St. Patrick's Day
Chatham Baroque, Alison Melville, recorder and baroque flute
Synod Hall, Oakland, Pennsylvania
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Mark O'Connor
Excerpts from Strings and Threads Suite
Sharon Isbin, guitar, Mark O'Connor, violin
Symphony Space, New York City
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Jon Lord
Excerpts from To Notice Such Things
Cormac Henry, flute, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell, conductor
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Jon Lord
Afterwards
Jon Lord, piano, Jeremy Irons, reader
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Henri Vieuxtemps
American Souvenir
Joshua Bell, violin
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
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Virgil Thomson
Fugue and Chorale on Yankee Doodle
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Joann Falletta, conductor
Ferguson Center for the Arts, Newport News, Virginia
