Leonard Bernstein
His premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 in 1951.
Porgy and Bess
Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra playing selections from this opera from George Gershwin.
Happy Fourth of July: An all-American music program on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
It’s a “Gershwin Spectacular” from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!
Leonard Slatkin guest conducts the CSO in a program of music by American composers.
Music by Gershwin (An American in Paris), Barber (Overture to the School For Scandal), Ives, Bates and others.
It’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week” on the “Evening Concert”
From the NYP Archives: symphonic music of Ives, Schoenberg and Webern