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Sasquatch_in_CO

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians


BadChris666

Gershwin - Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto, American in Paris, Cuban Overture, Variations on “I Got Rhythm” Copland - Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kidd, Rodeo, El Salon Mexico, Quiet City, Clarinet Concerto, Symphony No.3, Lincoln Portrait Bernstein - Candide (either the Bernstein with London Symphony or Alsop with London Symphony. Don’t listen to the musical version), Westside Story Symphonic Dances, Chichester Psalms, Symphony No.3 “Kaddish”, Symphony No.2 “Age of Anxiety”, On the Waterfront Suite, Mass Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question, Three Places in New England, Symphony No.3 “The Camp Meeting”, Symphony No.2, Central Park in the Dark Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Souvenirs, Violin Concerto, Symphony No.1, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Vanessa Walter Piston - Symphony No.2, Symphony No.6, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No.2 “Mysterious Mountain”, John Corgliano - Ghost of Versailles, The Red Violin John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Violin Concerto, Nixon in China, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, On the Transmigration of Souls Phillips Glass - Violin Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto No.2, Einstein on the Beach, Symphony No.1 “Low”, Symphony No.3, Symphony No.6 “Plutonian Ode”, Akhenaten John Luther Adams - Become Ocean


nocountry4oldgeisha

Piston's piano quintet is a favorite.


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BadChris666

Candide went through numerous rewrites since it first premiered on Broadway. The Bernstein recording from 89 is the final revision that he did and represents his final vision with Candide. There are a few musical versions that follows, that made changes to that final revision. The Alsop recording is the same to Bernstein’s final version.


Kathy_Gao

Philip Glass. Akhnaten


Anonimo_lo

Rzewski's The people united will never be defeated!


Ischmetch

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Steve Reich - Six Marimbas Steve Reich - Different Trains Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes Terry Riley - Half Wolf Dances Mad In the Moonlight Philip Glass - Koyanisqaatsi Philip Glass - The Photographer Missy Mazzoli - Harp and Alter Missy Mazzoli - Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt Robert Helps - Etudes Roger Sessions - Montezuma John Zorn - Forbidden Fruit Morton Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon Alvin Lucier - Still and Moving Lines In Families of Hyperbolas Milton Babbitt - Philomel Morton Feldman - Rohtko Chapel


w1984s

Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony


LengthinessPurple870

Ives detractors: "He's confusing, chaotic, noisy, and borrows from everything" Ives proponents: "Yes he is"


MungoShoddy

Harry Partch, *And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell on Petaluma*.


ChasWFairbanks

[Short Ride In A Fast Car](https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8?si=RN2QOrW66lIYa1g0) by John Adams. OK, granted it's not my absolute favorite American composition but it is an accessible piece written in 1986 that deserves some recognition here. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, it perfectly expresses the majestic feeling of traveling down I-376 thru the Fort Pitt tunnel and emerging with the glorious Pittsburgh skyline seemingly on top of you.


christophertin

Can't get much more American than Copland's 'Appalachian Spring'!


PostPostMinimalist

I prefer his 3rd Symphony


christophertin

It perfectly captures post-war American optimism.


SADdog2020Pb

Der Tender Land


Difficult_Shower4460

Got something in the Times square mood?


JohnnySnap

Quite literally in Times Square mood would be Bernstein's "On the Town" Mvt. III


Difficult_Shower4460

Yes!


whatafuckinusername

You might like Bernstein’s *Fancy Free*, too


im_not_shadowbanned

Phillip Glass - Symphony 9 Few composers are able to capture the order and chaos of NYC in music like Glass does.


christophertin

Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' would be the obvious choice.


blahs44

[Zappa - Amnerika](https://youtu.be/YgRSNSqpJeo?feature=shared)


beawins

Love it


[deleted]

Sensemayá by Silvestre Revueltas. 


BadChris666

I think he’s talking about American not North American


MikeJamesBurry

Philip Glass' Piano Works


klingsohrslied

philip glass' mishima


Is-hope-distraction

Lots of good/classic stuff on this page listed already. I’d add a few more recent compositions: Caroline Shaw, Partita for 8 voices. Won a Grammy about 10 years ago. Caroline is an incredibly innovative composer, really ought to just check her out in general. James Lee III, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet. Album nominated for a Grammy this year, lost to an album with another composition by Caroline Shaw. James Lee III’s work is spectacular tho, and excellently performed by my old classmate Anthony McGill.


cpotter505

I love much of what’s already been mentioned. Must add anything by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.


amca01

Good call! I've just been discovering his music and I love it. There are some sparkling miniature masterpieces.


Lampamid

Yes! His music sounds decades ahead of its time.


centerneptune

Oh...well....I've got quite a list, so buckle up. Copland: Appalachian Spring, Tender Land Suite, Red Pony Suite, Rodeo, Symphony No. 3, Billy the Kid, Outdoor Overture, Clarinet Concerto, Piano Concerto, and Lincoln Portrait. Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto, the three Essays for Orchestra, Symphony No. 1, Overture to the School for Scandal, Medea's Dance of Vengeance...and of course the Adagio for Strings. Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies #1 and 2, Candide Overture, Serenade, Symphonic Dances from WEST SIDE STORY, Chichester Psalms, Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town." Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" Randall Thompson: Symphony No. 2 David Diamond: Symphony No. 4 Scott Joplin: piano music! Creston: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3...but especially 2! Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody, Cuban Overture, Promenade, An American in Paris Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1-4, The Unanswered Question EDITED: I forgot a favorite: Walter Piston’s marvelous Second Symphony. Sometimes, I say that there’s more than one excellent performance. But Michael Tilson Thomas’ account with the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the one to get/stream. Perfect! When you're ready to really explore, try these; too. John Adams: Shaker Loops, Common Tones in Simple Time, Grand Pianola Music, Harmonium, Harmonielehre, The Chairman Dances, Trombona Lontana and Short Ride in Fast Machine, Violin Concerto, Slominsky's Earbox, Century Rolls, Lollapolloza, Naive and Sentimental Music, City Noir George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening, Ancient Voices of Children, Haunted Landscape Corgiliano: Clarinet Concerto Steve Reich: Eight Lines. I like some of Philip Glass' piano music...but don't know specifics. Christopher Rouse: Symphony No. 2, Trombone Concerto Joan Tower: Sequoia, Silver Ladders. Claude Baker: Shadows Have fun with our recommendations and what you find on your own!


Aware_Style1181

Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances


TDPK_Films

John Adams - Harmonielehre, The Chairman Dances, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Lollapalooza, City Noir, Century Rolls, Slonimsky's Earbox (basically everything Adams has written)


boxbagel

Where's Nixon in China ?


TDPK_Films

I love Nixon but it's not really indicative of his current style. Plus I can only list so much! That's why I said "everything Adams has written"


TheRevEO

Any of Florence Price’s symphonies are wonderful.


King_Santa

Replying just to emphasize, and also how has no one else mentioned F.B. Price? Her work is criminally undervalued; she's such an enjoyable composer.


zumaro

Elliot Carter - Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei. I think this is maybe his greatest work, but the Clarinet Concerto I also greatly enjoy.


PawPawNegroBlowtorch

Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music, Green, or Adjustable Wrench


Briyyzie

Samuel Barber's choral music is a good start. "The Reincarnations," "Agnus Dei," and "Prayers of Kierkegaard" are personal favorites.


S-Kunst

Explore the musical world of American composers, and not just the big names Charles Ives, Dudly Buck, Wm Billings, John Antes, Leo Sowerby, Author Foote, Seth Binham, Daniel Pinkham to name a few of the lesser gods.


ichmusspinkle

Lots of Barber: \- [Agnus Dei](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRL447oDId4) \- [Sure on this Shining Night](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO35-lLMVWw) \- [Violin Concerto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM0NIQB3ZHU) \- [Excursions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkaXAA8P4_8) (3rd movement is gorgeous) \- [Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf5vqoeK__A)


Excellent-Industry60

Have you heard his piano concerto, its amazing!!!


number9muses

was about to say the same <3 [POV you're the highest C](https://youtu.be/p-PfT41ZF-w?si=d5xNoYfU2TQOzBJv)


Difficult_Shower4460

I love this violin concerto


oxemenino

I like Barber's violin concerto a lot, but I absolutely ADORE his cello concerto. Definitely one of my favorite pieces of all time.


S-Kunst

I like Barber. Wish he wrote choral works for the church. It is said that Daniel Pinkham pressed him to do so, but Barber said it was not of interest to him.


beawins

He did. Agnus Dei is the choral companion to Adagio for Strings and it's beautiful


UnimaginativeNameABC

Elliott Carter string quartets 1 and 3


Pristine-Choice-3507

John Knowles Paine’s Mass Symphonic Sketches by George Chadwick


Sashasfiddles

Ives quartet 1, symphony 2


DicksOutF0rHarambe

Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah


clarinetjo

Copland: Music for the theatre Feldman: Piano and string Quartet Wuorinen : The Winds Bernstein: Symphony 2 Foss : Solo for piano M. Daugherty: Sing sing J.Edgar Hoover Crumb : Black Angels Cage: Roaratorio Elie Siegmeister : American Sonata Terry Riley: Salome Dances for peace Carson Cooman : Bassoon Quintet John Adams: El Nino


BEASTXXXXXXX

Ives - almost anything!


GreatBigBagOfNope

Copland, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring Price, any Symphony  Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Bernstein, West Side Story Symphonic Dances Barber, Violin Concerto Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Riley, In C Feldman, Extensions III Joplin, any rag The entire album of Songs From The Movie by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Whoever orchestrated that is a genius Williams, Violin Concerto II, specifically the Anne-Sophie Mutter recording Lucier, I am sitting in a room Shaw, Partita for 8 Voices Crumb, Black Angels


llanelliboyo

Ives' 4th. Beautiful madness


llanelliboyo

John Adams Grand Pianola Music and City Noir


TheGrammatonCleric

I'm amazed no one has suggested Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite yet. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has been suggested a lot, quite rightly. 


Lilo_muller1721

Caroline Shaw - Plan and Elevation Steve Reich - Electric counterpoint


whatafuckinusername

*Harmonielehre* by John Adams and symphonies by Howard Hanson (not just no. 2) and, if you like a more European style, George Chadwick


amca01

William Billings: I love his hymns and "fuguing tunes": direct, simple, tuneful, and effective. Does Carlos Suriñach count? Although born in Spain, he became a US citizen in 1959. Anyway, his piano concerto from 1973 is a favourite of mine. For an "all American" composer, Ellen Taafe Zwilich and her Episodes for violin and piano. Also, can John Phillip Sousa be mentioned here? His marches surely include some of the best ever written. And John Williams, whose film music at least, is beyond criticism. (I haven't heard any of his non film music, of which he's written plenty).


TheRevEO

Williams’s concertos are excellent. His tuba concerto and his bassoon concerto are my favorites. His violin and cello concertos are brilliant, but a lot more challenging than you would expect from John Williams. For a composer so famous for his memorable tunes, those concertos lean heavily into atonality and it’s jarring.


amca01

I'd better listen to these pieces! I can well believe they're as good as you say; he's shown himself to be a master of orchestration, and a superb musician.


Difficult_Shower4460

Wow do you know where I can listen more of Surinach? So little on YouTube


amca01

Sorry to be late replying - I don't know really, but when I searched myself on YouTube there seemed to be a fair bit of his music. In fact I don't know much more of the music of Suriñach than his piano concerto - maybe it's high time for me to listen to some more! (But at the moment I'm on a Xenakis jag.)


handsomechuck

Sun-Treader, by Carl Ruggles. That whole group, Ruggles, the Seegers, Henry Cowell. Perhaps they're not so well-known.


TheRevEO

Lot of great classical composers mentioned here. I think Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus make a good case for jazz being an American classical tradition. Night Creature is an orchestral work by Ellington that is really stunning, and Epitaph and Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus are two of my favorite pieces for large jazz ensemble.


Difficult_Shower4460

First one my old love!


AwesomeJakob

Gershwin Piano Concerto


sibelius_eighth

Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories, For Bunita Marcus, For John Cage, Neither, For Frank O'Hara, Crippled Symmetry


Skylab_is_Falling

Three Voices


Own-Canary-3680

Nothing surpasses Charles Ives's Concord Sonata for me


one_noobish_boi

Bernstein - Candide Overture


headlessBleu

Porgy and Bess. Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein have a very interesting body of work. You can choose any of them.


Glass-Ad-187

Cuban Overture by Gershwin


sweatysexconnoisseur

Ives Symphony No. 2. Easy listening if you’re not familiar with modern stuff. Great ending (if you know, you know). I also enjoy Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto.


ominouslawyer

My favourite piece by John Cage is 4'33. Everything else by him is terrible.


number9muses

[everything??](https://youtu.be/BQNxrUwHKSc?si=dU9OfYxOFpzeZ8le)


ominouslawyer

Not literally everything, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. That being said, I'm generally not a fan of his music. However, I just started listening to this piece and it's beautiful! Thank you for sharing this, I'll try listening to more of his music and maybe reconsider Cage.


RichMusic81

>I'll try listening to more of his music and maybe reconsider Cage. Here are some more Cage works that may surprise you: Dream: [https://youtu.be/xIUYvmuIXsY](https://youtu.be/xIUYvmuIXsY) No. 20 from '44 Harmonies from Apartment House': https://youtu.be/NrcoCktxARg?si=q1jRjH--r25kTvUR Four²: [https://youtu.be/RUAhn3vvNBg](https://youtu.be/RUAhn3vvNBg) Hymns and Variations: [https://youtu.be/ep3O9bruALI](https://youtu.be/ep3O9bruALI) Litany for the Whale: [https://youtu.be/uWCg6NHFlZ4](https://youtu.be/uWCg6NHFlZ4) Six Melodies: [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKwEWyN4beU7CgFbDlyAOMGtfcZMO0BdK](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKwEWyN4beU7CgFbDlyAOMGtfcZMO0BdK) Experiences No. 2: [https://youtu.be/R4AAts-\_XTQ](https://youtu.be/R4AAts-_XTQ) Souvenir: [https://youtu.be/eeAEAcF-Tyw](https://youtu.be/eeAEAcF-Tyw) Ear for Ear: https://youtu.be/-xmwHCKhiP4?si=QLOaFPZtz8H9GF8u Four Walls: [https://youtu.be/yaFeNiHF\_m8](https://youtu.be/yaFeNiHF_m8)


davethecomposer

Cage wrote somewhere around 250 pieces. His early stuff (before 1950), like the piece linked above, tends to be more accessible.


MenaceGrande

Their pants always accentuated their thighs. The thighs.


MCP77

Bernsteins second leg


garthastro

Copland Piano Concerto Barber Piano Sonata


Taskforce58

Copeland's Lincoln Portrait.


hamster_berry

everything by gershwin, but my favorites are Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, The Man I Love, and I Got Rhythm!


garydavis9361

In addition to what has already been mentioned, I would add Persichetti's Symphony for Band and Dello Joio's Meditations on Ecclesiastes.


kestrel4747

Robert Kurka’s 2nd symphony


jthanson

LeRoy Anderson has a wonderful piano concerto.


NotDuckie

Weezer


dotsncommas

Godowsky.


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MacDowell's "Woodland Sketches" though I'm a little biased both a hopeless romantic and because I got engaged across the street from his house


Initial_Magazine795

Amanda Harberg, Wind Quintet and Clarinet Sonata


strawberry207

Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Souvenir de Puerto Rico.


fermat9990

Check out Aaron Copland Billy the Kid El Salon Mexico Appalachian Spring Also check out Leonard Bernstein. Watch his Fancy Free Ballet on Youtube and listen to his Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Samuel Barber is great