The National Symphony Orchestra marks the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, and reflects on the ongoing loss from COVID-19, and honors those on the front lines throughout the pandemic. The program is led by Gianandrea Noseda and features special guests General Colin Powell, Dr. Francis Collins, Isabel Leonard, and the United States Marine Band.
Show Notes
Program
John Stafford Smith/John Williams, The Star Spangled Banner
Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
James Lee III, An Engraved American Mourning (world premiere)
William Grant Still, Mother and Child
Angela Trudell Vasquez, Dispatches from Radar Hill
- Read by Shirley Riggsbee
Leonard Bernstein, Greeting (from Arias and Barcarolles), Take Care of this House (from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue), Lonely Town (from On the Town), Somewhere (from West Side Story)
- Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Carlos Simon, This Land
George W. Warren/Thomas, God of Our Fathers
Samuel Ward/Carmen Dragon, America the Beautiful
Artists
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Isabel Leonard, mezzo soprano
National Symphony Orchestra
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band