Poster The Sunset Boulevard Bridge, Spokane
The Sunset Boulevard Bridge over Latah Creek at Spokane. Photo taken from the Westbound Empire builder train on route to Portland, Ore.
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Performance Today®

Road trip to Spokane

All summer long, we're featuring great music inspired by distinctive American places on our PT Summer Road Trip. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll stop in the Pacific Northwest to hear a piece by Wayne Horvitiz called "Thursday, at Dusk, In Spokane, Washington."

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Aaron Copland: The Red Pony, Film Suite for Orchestra: 3a. Dream March; 3b. Circus Music
Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, Conductor
A Copland Profile
Delos 3221

Richard Rodgers & Robert Bennett (arr. Mark Rogers): Oklahoma!
Dallas Winds; Jerry Junkin, conductor
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Kahane, music director
Royce Hall, Westwood, CA

Wayne Horvitz: Thursday, At Dusk, In Spokane, Washington
Laura DeLuca, clarinet; Wayne Horvitz, piano
Otis Spann and Other Compositions
Periplum P0100

Hour 2

Marc-Andre Hamelin: Landler I, from Con intimissimo sentimento & Little Nocturne
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Etudes
Hyperion 67789

Morton Gould: American Salute
Dallas Winds; Donald McKinney, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, TX

Peter Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49
Sinfonia da Camera; Ian Hobson, music director
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL

Marc-Andre Hamelin: Pavane variee
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
Schwetzingen Festival, Mozart Hall, Schwetzingen, Germany

Henri Vieuxtemps: Souvenir D'amerique, on Yankee Doodle
Leila Josefowicz, violin; John Novacek, piano
Leila Josefowicz: Americana
Philips 462948

Moritz Moszkowski: Etincelles, Op. 36 No. 6, "Sparkles"
Josef Hofmann, piano
The Polish Virtuoso
Nimbus 8801

Samuel Agustus Ward (arr. Carmen Dragon): America the Beautiful
United States Marine Band; Lieutenant Colonel Jason K. Fettig, conductor
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA

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