Choral Showcase honors Independence Day and America's 250th birthday with songs, hymns and anthems from Appalachia, the American canon, and popular song. Plus a cantata by Michael Daugherty called Mount Rushmore, based on the writings of four American presidents.
Show Notes
Traditional: The Star-Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, America
Daniel C. Roberts/George W. Warren: God of Our Fathers
Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land
Samuel A. Ward/Katherine Lee Bates: America, the Beautiful
- Washington Men's Camerata; Thomas Beveridge, conductor
Traditional: Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal; O Thou, in Whose Presence; Social Band; Resignation; I Will Arise; Holy Manna
- Gloria Dei Cantores; Elizabeth C. Patterson, conductor
Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore
- Pacific Chorale and Symphony; Carl St. Clair, conductor
Traditional/Stephen Foster: O Shenandoah; Wayfarin' Stranger; Pretty Saro; Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair; Hard Times Come Again no More; Buffalo Gals; The Water is Wide
- The Dale Warland Singers; Dale Warland, conductor
Brian Wilson/Mike Love (arr. Bob Chilcott): Good Vibrations
- The King's Singers