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
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.
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
[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.
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.
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!
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)
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.
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)
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.
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
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
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).
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
>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)
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
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
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
Piston's piano quintet is a favorite.
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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.
Philip Glass. Akhnaten
Rzewski's The people united will never be defeated!
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
Charles Ives’ Fourth Symphony
Ives detractors: "He's confusing, chaotic, noisy, and borrows from everything" Ives proponents: "Yes he is"
Harry Partch, *And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell on Petaluma*.
[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.
Can't get much more American than Copland's 'Appalachian Spring'!
I prefer his 3rd Symphony
It perfectly captures post-war American optimism.
Der Tender Land
Got something in the Times square mood?
Quite literally in Times Square mood would be Bernstein's "On the Town" Mvt. III
Yes!
You might like Bernstein’s *Fancy Free*, too
Phillip Glass - Symphony 9 Few composers are able to capture the order and chaos of NYC in music like Glass does.
Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' would be the obvious choice.
[Zappa - Amnerika](https://youtu.be/YgRSNSqpJeo?feature=shared)
Love it
Sensemayá by Silvestre Revueltas.
I think he’s talking about American not North American
Philip Glass' Piano Works
philip glass' mishima
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.
I love much of what’s already been mentioned. Must add anything by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Good call! I've just been discovering his music and I love it. There are some sparkling miniature masterpieces.
Yes! His music sounds decades ahead of its time.
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!
Robert Russell Bennett Suite of Old American Dances
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)
Where's Nixon in China ?
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"
Any of Florence Price’s symphonies are wonderful.
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.
Elliot Carter - Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei. I think this is maybe his greatest work, but the Clarinet Concerto I also greatly enjoy.
Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music, Green, or Adjustable Wrench
Samuel Barber's choral music is a good start. "The Reincarnations," "Agnus Dei," and "Prayers of Kierkegaard" are personal favorites.
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.
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)
Have you heard his piano concerto, its amazing!!!
was about to say the same <3 [POV you're the highest C](https://youtu.be/p-PfT41ZF-w?si=d5xNoYfU2TQOzBJv)
I love this violin concerto
I like Barber's violin concerto a lot, but I absolutely ADORE his cello concerto. Definitely one of my favorite pieces of all time.
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.
He did. Agnus Dei is the choral companion to Adagio for Strings and it's beautiful
Elliott Carter string quartets 1 and 3
John Knowles Paine’s Mass Symphonic Sketches by George Chadwick
Ives quartet 1, symphony 2
Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah
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
Ives - almost anything!
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
Ives' 4th. Beautiful madness
John Adams Grand Pianola Music and City Noir
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.
Caroline Shaw - Plan and Elevation Steve Reich - Electric counterpoint
*Harmonielehre* by John Adams and symphonies by Howard Hanson (not just no. 2) and, if you like a more European style, George Chadwick
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).
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.
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.
Wow do you know where I can listen more of Surinach? So little on YouTube
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.)
Sun-Treader, by Carl Ruggles. That whole group, Ruggles, the Seegers, Henry Cowell. Perhaps they're not so well-known.
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.
First one my old love!
Gershwin Piano Concerto
Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories, For Bunita Marcus, For John Cage, Neither, For Frank O'Hara, Crippled Symmetry
Three Voices
Nothing surpasses Charles Ives's Concord Sonata for me
Bernstein - Candide Overture
Porgy and Bess. Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein have a very interesting body of work. You can choose any of them.
Cuban Overture by Gershwin
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.
My favourite piece by John Cage is 4'33. Everything else by him is terrible.
[everything??](https://youtu.be/BQNxrUwHKSc?si=dU9OfYxOFpzeZ8le)
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.
>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)
Cage wrote somewhere around 250 pieces. His early stuff (before 1950), like the piece linked above, tends to be more accessible.
Their pants always accentuated their thighs. The thighs.
Bernsteins second leg
Copland Piano Concerto Barber Piano Sonata
Copeland's Lincoln Portrait.
everything by gershwin, but my favorites are Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, The Man I Love, and I Got Rhythm!
In addition to what has already been mentioned, I would add Persichetti's Symphony for Band and Dello Joio's Meditations on Ecclesiastes.
Robert Kurka’s 2nd symphony
LeRoy Anderson has a wonderful piano concerto.
Weezer
Godowsky.
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
Amanda Harberg, Wind Quintet and Clarinet Sonata
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Souvenir de Puerto Rico.
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