Omar Thomas says that, in all his years playing in concert bands, he never got to play music celebrating African American traditions. So as a composer, he wrote the piece he wished he could have played. On today's show, hear a vibrant work called Come Sunday, by Omar Thomas, from a concert presented by the Dallas Winds.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Benjamin Britten: Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 Movement 4 Lullaby
Angelo Xiang Yu, violin; Gloria Chien, piano
Album: Music@Menlo Live
Music@Menlo NA
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony: Movement 1
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
Max Bruch: selections from 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83
David Shifrin, clarinet; Paul Neubauer, viola; Gloria Chien, piano
String Theory at the Hunter, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30: Movement 1
Dover Quartet
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Hour 2
Franz Schubert: Der Lindenbaum
Frederic Chiu, piano
Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions
Harmonia Mundi 3957054
Omar Thomas: Come Sunday
Dallas Winds; Jerry Junkin, conductor
Meyerson Symphony Hall, Dallas, TX
Claude Debussy: Cloches a travers les feuilles (Images, Book 2)
Frederic Chiu, piano
Southeastern Piano Festival, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D Major: Movements 2-4
Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR
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