America 250 on Classical WMHT
Tune in for the top 100 countdown July 3-4 from 6am, hosted by conductor David Alan Miller
Celebrate America 250 with 250 years of American classical music on WMHT – our partnership with David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony for the top 250 American classical works. And listen to the countdown of the Top 100 Friday 6am-8pm and Saturday 6am-5pm. It’s the American Musical Marathon, ending on No. 1 just in time to see the July 4 fireworks!
The story of American Classical Music is a story of different influences—the push and pull between European standards and models, and our own spectacularly rich and colorful heritage. When it came time to celebrate America’s 250th, we immediately thought of our friends from the Albany Symphony, who have always championed American Music and have commissioned and recorded as much new American music as anyone. We crafted this list together and were thrilled that David Alan Miller, Music Director and Conductor of the Albany Symphony and a spectacular raconteur, agreed to host. We present the American Musical Marathon, David Alan Miller hosting the Top 100 with stories that only he knows, all day Friday and Saturday July 3-4 from 6am.
We will be posting the day’s countdown on this page after it airs – and please comment! Who is too high in the countdown? Who is too low? Who did we miss? This is our music and we are bursting with pride here at WMHT. We hope you enjoy it. Happy July 4th!
1 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Rhapsody in Blue
The most iconic of all American works, for Paul Whiteman’s “:Experiment in Modern Music” concert Feb 12 1924, with the hilarious origin story of George only learning that he was supposed to be writing it from a newspaper article - and the family assembly line that rushed to get it finished in time. “I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, of our metropolitan madness” he said - this lanky 25-year old pianist-composer walking on to the stage to take his seat, the clarinettist giving the famous whoop! glissando that starts the piece, and history was made
2 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (1936)
The incredible, heart-wrenchingly beautiful and famous adagio, complete with David Alan Miller's lovely story about Toscanini conducting the orchestral premiere
3 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Appalachian Spring
The iconic American ballet for Martha Graham, 1944, complete with the wonderful story behind the name
4 John Philip Sousa (1854 – 1932) The Washington Post
One of the all-time greatest of all great American marches - a two step that has held the boards since 1889
5 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) West Side Story (Symphonic Dances)
The iconic 1957 Broadway retelling of Romeo and Juliet, set on the Upper West Side
6 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
7 Edward MacDowell (1860 – 1908) Piano Concerto no. 2 (1885)
8 John Williams (1932 –) Schindler's List, main theme (1994)
9 Ferde Grofe (1892 – 1972) Grand Canyon Suite (1931)
10 Scott Joplin (1868 – 1917) Bethena
11 John Knowles Paine (1839 – 1906) Symphony No. 1 (i. Allegro con brio) (1875)
12 Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) Sophisticated Lady
13 Rogers & Hammerstein Carousel Waltz (1945)
14 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (1942)
15 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) Candide, Overture (1956)
16 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex
17 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) An American in Paris (1928)
18 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) El Salon Mexico (1936)
19 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Violin Concerto, Op.14 (1939)
20 Jay Ungar (1946 – ) Ashokan Farewell
21 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Our Town
22 Howard Hanson (1896 – 1981) Merry Mount, Suite (1938)
23 Florence Price (1887 – 1953) Dances in the Canebrakes
24 Alan Hovhannes (1911 – 2000) Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain” (1955)
25 Philip Glass (1937 – ) Metamorphoses #4
26 Morton Lauridsen (1943 –) O magnum mysterium
The piece that made this West Coast composer famous: the 1994 motet for a Capella choir, based on Gregorian chant
27 Scott Joplin (1868 – 1917) Maple Leaf Rag (1899)
The ragtime classic, first played at the Maple Leaf club in Sedalia Missouri, by one of our greatest, most under-appreciated composers who died destitute at the age of just 48
28 Florence Price (1887 – 1953) Symphony no.1
The first symphony by a Black woman to be premiered by a major American orchestra - the Boston Symphony in1933
29 Traditional When Johnny Comes Marching Home
One of our most iconic American songs, composed by Civil War bandmaster Patrick Gilmore
30 Joan Tower (1938 – ) Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman no. 1
Her witty response to the famous Copland, 1967
31 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Clarinet Concerto (1949)
Another Copland classic, commissioned by that greatest of all jazz clarinettists Benny Goodman. Amazingly evocative and idiomatic, with the famously beautiful opening
32 John Adams (1947 – ) Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The famous and exceedingly concise "fanfare for orchestra" from 1986
33 Amy Beach (1867 – 1944) Gaelic Symphony
A monumental American symphony, first symphony composed and published by an American woman, inspired by the folk song of her ancestral heritage and premiered in Boston in 1896
34 Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) Sleigh Ride
The iconic holiday classic (1947)
35 Michael Torke (1961 –) Javelin (1994)
Another Michael Torke classic, commissioned for the Atlanta Symphony's 50th anniversary and famously featuring at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
36 Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) God Bless America
One of the most iconic songs in American history by the iconic songsmith, written in the last year of WWI when he was in the army at Camp Upton in NY. Fun fact: donating all the royalties to the Boys and Girls Scouts of America
37 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) On the Town: Three dance episodes (1944)
The 1944 classic, Lenny's first big Broadway musical born out of his collaboration with Jerome Robbins, Fancy Free. New York, New York!
38 William Billings (1746 – 1800) The Singing Master's Assistant
The landmark 1778 tool book for hymns psalms and fuging tunes, popularly known as "Billings Best", by this first pioneering composer of our great nation
39 Virgil Thomson (1896 – 1989) Symphony on a Hymn Tune (iii, iv) (1928)
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" meets favourite hymn tunes - a very early piece written while the composer was still studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris
40 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Billy the Kid (1938)
The Aaron Copland classic and a breakthrough piece for him, as the first of his "Cowboy" ballets about the famous outlaw, commissioned in 1938 by the pre-cursor of the NYCB. So impressive how he evokes the wonderful expanse of the american prairie
41 William Levi Dawson (1899 – 1990) Negro Folk Symphony
A very important American symphony, originally written 1934 for Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, seamlessly integrating African-American spirituals into the texture and with one of the most startling and ominous passages in all the 20th Century
42 William Bolcom (1938 –) Graceful Ghost Rag (1970)
Long-time professor at the University of Michigan, turning out some of our most brilliant young and emerging composers, who confessed to having a lifelong "rag addiction" that was only cured in 2015. This is the most famous, inspired by the Golden Oldies
43 George Walker (1922 – 2018) Lyric for Strings (1946)
Originally the slow movement "Lament" of the first string quartet by this great and somewhat under-appreciated composer, this radiant little piece was written while still a student at Curtis in memory of his grandmother who was born into slavery and actually escaped to raise a large family in Washington D.C.
44 Michael Torke (1961 –) Bright Blue Music (1985)
A David Alan Miller commission for the New York Youth Symphony in 1985, when both conductor and composer were in their 20s, now a modern classic played all over the world. A beautiful, "shocklingly tonal" synaesthetic little tone poem in what for Torke is the key, D major, associated with the color blue
45 Charlie Chaplin (1889 – 1977) Modern Times: Smile
The beautiful little song that became a pop standard, originally written for Modern Times (1936), by the great Charlie Chaplin in his lesser-known guise as musical devotee and enthusiastic composer
46 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Concerto in F (1925)
One of David Alan Miller’s all-time favorite concertos in the entire global repertoire by this greatest of great American composers - complete with the story about the Albany Symphony recording with Kevin Cole
47 Eric Whitacre (1970 –) Lux Aurumque
48 Joan Tower (1938 –) Cello Concerto "A New Day" (i. Daybreak) (2021)
A recent work by Hudson Valley’s own Grammy-winning composer and one of our great contemporary pioneers, written while she was caring for her late partner of 48 years. So heartfelt and beautiful
49 Jerome Moross (1913 – 1983) The War Lord, suite 1965
The 1965 medieval epic by the great Brooklynite
50 Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) Blue Tango
The 1951 classic, a little jewel of a miniature, reached no 1 on the Billboard chart
51 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) Violin Concerto
The glorious violin concerto that marks the return to symphonic music of one of America's greatest film composers who swore, after emigrating from Vienna to the USA as a Jewish refugee, to only write for Hollywood until Hitler was defeated. 1945
52 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) 3 Preludes
A set of George Gershwin classics for piano, 1926, with gentle and beautiful nods to the jazz that he loved so dearly
53 Kenneth Fuchs (1956 – ) American Rhapsody (Romance for Violin and Orchestra)
A sweeping, one-movement concerto for violin of 2008 by this Grammy-winning composer, one of America's most most recorded and most internationally successful
54 Miklos Rozsa (1907 – 1995) Ben Hur Suite
The rousing, dynamic score to the 1959 movie classic, starring Charlton Heston, by this Hungarian-born film composer, a titan of the American film industry. Won him his 3rd Oscar
55 Aaron Jay Kernis (1960 – ) Air
A heartfelt "love letter to the violin" by this "great human being", old friend and collaborator with the Albany SO
56 Virgil Thomson (1896 – 1989) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
The most classic of the film scores, 1942, for the 1936 documentary about the American dust bowl by this amazing figure in American history - composer, writer on music and one of the most witty and acerbic music critics in American history
57 John Williams (1932 – ) Star Wars: suite (1977)
The movie classic
58 Jennifer Higdon (1962 – ) Blue Cathedral (2000)
One of the most performed contemporary American works and her breakthrough work, a radiant and beautiful little tone poem inspired by the early death of her brother Blue from cancer in 1998
59 John Adams (1947 – ) The Chairman Dances (1987)
A contemporary classic, the foxtrot out-take from Adams' amazing opera Nixon in China. Chairman Mao is stepping out from his portrait on the wall to dance with Mme Mao, all decked out in her finery
60 Stephen Foster (1826 – 1864) The Old Folks Quadrilles
Another classic by one of the most recognised and celebrated American composers of the 19th century
61 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Symphony 1, Op.9 (1936)
One of the contenders for “Best American Symphony”, amazingly powerful and compact, written at the age of only 26
62 John Williams (1932 – ) E.T.: Flying Theme
The famous scene in the 1982 movie
63 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Quiet City
Classic Copland, one of his most understated and radiant pieces
64 Michael Daugherty (1954 – ) Blue Elektra (2022)
The premiere recording by David Alan Miller and Anne Akiko Meyers, of this latest violin concerto inspired by the life of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart
65 Ulysses Kay (1917 – 1995) Pieta
Inspired by Michelangelo’s Pieta at St Peter’s in Rome, written by our great Black American composer, first American to win the Prix de Rome not once but twice
66 Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) Symphony No. 2 (1901)
Charles Ives again, that most iconic and inventive of all American composers, weaving America The Beautiful into all other sort of folk songs in this beautiful third movement
67 Margaret Bonds (1913 – 1972) Troubled Water (1967)
68 Michael Torke (1961 – ) Unconquered (2016)
This monumental beautiful work created for and about us: the battles at Saratoga
69 Amy Beach (1867 – 1944) Romance, Op. 23 (1893)
70 John Williams (1932 – ) Raiders of the Lost Ark: March (1981)
No intro needed. Just one of most iconic film scores (and marches) of all time
71 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) Divertimento (1980)
Gloriously playful 8 minutes celebrating the centenary of the Boston Symphony, by Boston’s most famous musical son
72 Elmer Bernstein (1922 – 2004) The Magnificent Seven: Main title (1960)
Arguably the greatest few minutes of music ever written for a Western
73 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 – 1920) The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan 1912
Gorgeous tone poem by one of the greatest American impressionists
74 William Grant Still (1895 – 1978) Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" (1930)
The pioneering. First symphony by a Black American to be performed by a leading American orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, by this gigantic figure in American music
75 Cole Porter (1891 – 1964) Anything Goes Overture
The absolute classic, chock full of some of his most witty and brilliant songs
76 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Porgy and Bess (Fantasy) (1935
An amazing amalgam of some of the greatest songs of all times, one of the last works by that most extraordinary of all our great American composers
77 Mason Bates (1977 – ) Piano Concerto ( 2022
A wild ride of a piano concerto by this very dynamic Grammy winning American composer, influenced as much by his techno DJ background as his awesome classical chops
78 Scott Joplin (1868 – 1917) The Entertainer (1902)
Another classic from the King of Ragtime
79 Michael Torke (1961 – ) Sky, A Bluegrass Concerto (2019)
Kentucky violinist Tessa Lark, before going into classical, grew up playing Bluegrass at the highest possible level with her father – and when Michael Torke saw one of her Bluegrass encores following a concerto performance, he composed this for her
https://youtu.be/2_TrzzA864E?si=rr-x227ewQZCTDDP
80 Christopher Theofanidis (1967 – ) Viola Concerto
Winning a second Grammy for The Albany Symphony, violist Richard O’Neill and David Alan Miller, this beautiful concerto inspired by 9/11
https://youtu.be/w65j6ibW73Y?si=1L2IrLMucRBEiimc
81 Judith Lang Zaimont (1945 – ) Elegy for Strings (2013)
The New York composer, writes in this very beautiful modernist and post-modernist style
82 Alan Hovhannes (1911 – 2000) Symphony 22 "City of Light"
Justly famous symphony by this most prolific of American composers, composed for the centennial of Birmingham Alabama
83 Justin Holland (1819 – 1887) Variations on Nearer My God to Thee
Beautiful variations by this friend of Frederick Douglass
84 Morton Lauridsen (1943 - ) Sure on this Shining Night 1985
The California composer, best known for his choral music like this, taught at UCA for 52 years
85 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Tender Land Suite
The suite from his one and only full-length 1958 opera, inspired by Depression-era photos, with all those Copland favorite classic American folk songs woven in
86 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Lincoln Portrait (1942)
One of his most justly celebrated works quoting our great 16th president, in the famous James Earl Jones narration
87 Harry T Burleigh (1866 – 1949) Southland Sketches (1916)
The man who sang spirituals to Dvorak during his time teaching in New York, became an important composer-arranger in his own right, and inspired Dvorak to write the New World Symphony
88 Dimitri Tiomkin (1894 – 1979) High Noon
The classic western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, 1952
89 Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) Beggar's Holiday Suite
Fascinating 1946 take on John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera of 1778 by this most significant and remarkable of American composers, stuffed with some of his most glorious tunes
90 Daron Hagen (1961 –) City of Light
Hudson Valley’s own. Written to celebrate the thrum and electric energy of the great city of Buffalo for the 90th anniversary of the Buffalo Philharmonic
91 Amy Beach (1867 – 1944) Piano Quintet F-Sharp Minor, Op.67
The first American woman to get major performances here in America; and more than that, the first internationally recognized American composer male or female. Self-taught! This is just the first of a few appearances she has in our Top 100, here with chamber music 1907, so powerful
92 Morton Gould (1913 – 1996) Symphonette 2 – Pavanne
One of David Alan Miller’s favorites by this real, New York-born, New Yorky New Yorker
93 Florence Price (1887 –1953) Violin Concerto No. 1
A “radiant” American violin concerto almost lost forever – one of those only discovered by chance in her abandoned summer house in 2009, over 50 years after her death
94 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) The Sea Hawk Suite
The Errol Flynn swashbuckling classic by one of the greatest of all American film composers. Complete with a hilarious Hollywood anecdote
95 Jessie Montgomery (1981 – ) Banner
Two great anthems united. So moving
https://youtu.be/eUeTCoHOYEQ?si=mu99WIhIetmKgrg6
96 John Philip Sousa (1854 – 1932) The Liberty Bell
The March King! (1893) No more intro needed!
https://youtu.be/K-xKri5Jmik?si=on61m_0Xg3WXB3DL
97 James P Johnson (1894 – 1955) Yamekraw, A Negro Rhapsody
Gorgeous rhapsody by the legendary pioneer of stride piano and ragtime
https://youtu.be/RnbzBko2OQg?si=QoWZwTknQ_BGPsOz
98 John Knowles Paine (1839 – 1906) Overture to "As You Like It"
The Boston composer, famous 19th Century symphonist, first music professor in America! Taught at Harvard for 43 years. Enjoying a well-deserved revival after his recent appearance (as played by SUNY Schenectady’s Chris Brellochs) in The Gilded Age
99 Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) Symphony 3 "The Camp Meeting"
The work for which Ives received the Pulitzer Prize – almost four decades after writing it, in 1910. The first and not only entry in our top 100, of this spectacularly innovative great American spirit
https://youtu.be/qd50AGwaYOo?si=4L5-653se8GWZj21
100 Stephen Foster (1826 – 1864) Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Our American Schubert. The greatest American song writer of the 19th Century
101 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) The School for Scandal, overture
The first time we feature the great Samuel Barber – with the piece he wrote while still a student at Curtis in Philadelphia, 1935. We’ll be hearing from him again
https://youtu.be/xZ6dOyyjsfs?si=SFQ1l0Lob8XCKqj1
102 William Billings (1746 – 1800) Bethlehem
The first composer in America! And pioneering father of American choral music
103 Elmer Bernstein (1922 – 2004) Guitar Concerto: For Two Christophers
One of the great American guitar concertos, 2004 … one of those Christophers, being one of the great American guitarists
104 John Williams (1932 – ) Munich
Our first entrance in the Top 100 by this great American film composer who we’ll be hearing from again. This one – Steven Spielberg's 1972 film about the Munich Olympics massacre. A prayer for peace and hope
https://youtu.be/Mjm4WEwgJHk?si=DFyPXa0whVyASpgD
105 Steven Stucky (1949 – 2016) Dreamwaltzes
Stucky’s breakthrough piece, quoting old European waltz favorites, that made his name in the 1980s
106 Jennifer Higdon (1962 - ) Harp Concerto
2019 Grammy award-winner for Best Contemporary Composition
https://youtu.be/VMWtZOBgSto?si=g2solm1ZoMDUylok
107 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Embraceable You
108 Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) Caravan
109 Alfred Newman (1900 – 1970) Wuthering Heights - Cathy's Theme
110 Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) Trumpeter's Lullaby
111 Harold Arlen (1905 – ) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Hedwig's Theme
113 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939 –) Symphony no. 1
114 Rogers & Hammerstein The King & I Overture
115 Romeo Cascarino (1922 –) The Acadian Land
116 Stephen Sondheim (1930 – 2021) A Little Night Music Suite
117 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Knoxville: Summer of 1915
118 Max Steiner (1888 – 1971) Gone with the Wind : Tara's theme
119 Ned Rorem (1923 – 2022) Piano Concerto no. 2
120 Ulysses Kay (1917 – 1995) Concerto for Orchestra
121 John Corigliano (1938 –) Conjurer: Percussion concerto
122 David Diamond (1915 – 2005) Rounds for string orchestra
123 Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975) Vertigo suite
124 John Harbison (1938 –) The Great Gatsby Suite
125 Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 – 1869) A Night in the Tropics
126 Roy Harris (1898 – 1979) Symphony no. 3
127 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Old American Songs
128 Howard Hanson (1896 – 1981) Symphony no. 2 "Romantic"
129 Clarice Assad (1978) Bohemian Queen: Concerto for Trumpet & Strings
130 Ferde Grofe (1892 – 1972) Hudson River Suite
131 Adolphus Hailstork (1941 –) Piano Concerto 1
132 Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) The Unanswered Question
133 Morton Gould (1913 – 1996) American Salute
134 Don Gillis (1922 – 2008) Symphony 5 1/2
135 Romeo Cascarino (1922 – 2002) Pygmalion
136 Miklos Rozsa (1907 – 1995) Madame Bovary Waltz
137 George Tsontakis (1951) October
138 John Frederick Peter (1746 – 1813) Symphony in G
139 Aaron Jay Kernis (1960 –) New Era Dances
140 Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 – 1869) Bamboula
141 Franz Waxman (1906 – 1967) Rebecca suite
142 Edward MacDowell (1860 – 1908) Woodland Sketches: To a Wild Rose
143 Rogers & Hammerstein Sound of Music
144 Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990) Serenade
145 Michael Daugherty (1954 –) Reflections on the Mississippi
146 Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) Waltzing Cat
147 John Philip Sousa (1854 – 1932) The Stars & Stripes Forever
148 Traditional Shenendoah
149 Amy Beach (1867 – 1944) A Hermit Thrush at Morn
150 Caroline Shaw (1982 –) Is a Rose (And so)
151 Joan Tower (1938 –) Sequoia
152 Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975) Fahrenheit 451 Suite
153 Morton Gould (1913 – 1996) Fall River Legend
154 Walter Piston (1894 – 1976) Incredible Flutist
155 Horatio Parker (1863 – 1919) A Northern Ballad
156 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) Much Ado About Nothing Suite
157 Christopher Theofanidis (1967 –) Rainbow Body
158 Peter Mennin (1923 – 1983) Concertato for Orchestra "Moby Dick"
159 William Schuman (1910 – 1992) New England Tryptich
160 William Grant Still (1895 – 1978) Suite for Violin & Piano
161 Frederic Rzewski (1938 – 2021) The People United will Never Be Defeated
162 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 – 1920) Three Tone Pictures
163 Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) Piano Sonata 2 "Concord Mass"
164 Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) Lush Life
165 Philip Glass (1937 –) Glassworks
166 John Williams (1932 –) Jaws
167 Eric Whitacre (1970 –) The Pacific Has No Memory
168 Adolphus Hailstork (1941 –) An American Port of Call
169 Jerome Moross (1913 – 1983) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Suite
170 Kevin Puts (1972 –) Contact, Triple concerto
171 John PhilipSousa (1854 – 1932) The New York Hippodrome
172 Max Steiner (1888 – 1971) Casablanca Suite
173 Reena Esmail (1983 –) Rosa del Sal
174 Viet Cuong (1990 –) Next Week's Trees
175 George Crumb (1929 – 2022) Echoes of Time & the River (2.Remembrance of Time)
176 Randall Thompson (1899 – 1984) Alleluia
177 David Del Tredici (1937 – 2023) Final Alice "Boat 'neath a sunny sky"
178 Don Gillis (1922 – 2008) Paul Bunyan: An Overture to a Legend
179 David Diamond (1915 – 2005) Music for Shakepeare's Romeo & Juliet
180 George Antheil (1900 – 1959) Serenade 1
181 Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975) Psycho Suite
182 Dana Suesse (1909 – 1987) Concerto in Three Rhythms
183 Franz Waxman (1906 – 1967) Prince Valiant Suite
184 Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 – 1869) Grande tarantelle
185 Philip Glass (1937 –) Mad Rush
186 Victor Herbert (1859 – 1924) Irish Rhapsody
187 George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Summertime
188 Don Gillis (1922 – 2008) Symphony X: The Big D
189 Lukas Foss (1922 – 2009) Renaissance Concerto
190 Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) Black, Brown and Beige
191 John Corigliano (1938 –) Red Violin Concerto
192 Harry T Burleigh (1866 – 1949) Deep River
193 William Bolcom (1938 –) 12 New Etudes for Piano
194 Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) Puttin on the Ritz
195 David Amram (1930 –) Theme & Variations on "Red River Valley"
196 Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990) Symphony 3
197 Cecil Effinger (1914 – 1990) Little Symphony no. 1
198 Arthur Foote (1853 – 1937) Three Pieces for Flute, Oboe & Cello
199 Thomas Hastings (1784 – 1872) Rock of Ages
200 Adolphus Hailstork (1941 –) Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
201 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 – 1920) The White Peacock
202 Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975) North by North-west: Overture
203 Libby Larsen (1950 –) Symphony: Water Music
204 Randall Thompson (1899 – 1984) Symphony no. 2
205 Margaret Bonds (1913 – 1972) Montgomery Variations
206 John Christopher Moller (1755 – 1803) Quartet in E-Flat
207 Rogers & Hammerstein Oklahoma Overture
208 Kenneth Fuchs (1956 –) Point of Tranquility
209 Scott Joplin (1868 – 1917) Gladiolus Rag
210 Florence Price (1887 – 1953) 5 Folksongs in Counterpoint
211 Julia Perry (1924 – 1979) Stabat mater
212 Sarah Kirkland Snider (1973 –) Chrysalis
213 Cole Porter (1891 – 1964) Kiss Me Kate Overture
214 Viet Cuong (1990 –) Re[new]al
215 Libby Larsen (1950 –) Symphony 5 "Solo Symphony"
216 Arthur Foote (1853 – 1937) Scherzo for Flute & String Quartet
217 Alan Shulman (1915 – 2002) Waltzes for Orchestra
218 Alan Silvestri (1950 –) Polar Express Suite
219 Michael Torke (1961 –) Three Manhattan Bridges (Queensboro)
220 Dimitri Tiomkin (1894 – 1979) It's a Wonderful Life Suite
221 Clarice Assad (1978 –) Sin Fronteras
222 John Adams (1947 –) China Gates
223 Reena Esmail (1983 –) one word makes a world
224 Valerie Coleman (1970 –) Umoja: Anthem of Unity
225 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939 –) Episodes
226 Christopher Rouse (1949 – 2019) Bassoon Concerto
227 William Grant Still (1895 – 1978) Lyric Quartet
228 Miklos Rozsa (1907 – 1995) Spellbound
229 David Raksin (1912 – 2004) Laura - Main Theme
230 Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979) Victory at Sea
231 Paul Schoenfeld (1947 – 2024) Café Music
232 Walter Piston (1894 – 1976) Suite for Orchestra 1
233 Tania Leon (1943 –) Pasajes (Voyages)
234 Derek Bermel (1967 –) Migration Series
235 Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Cello Concerto
236 Howard Hanson (1896 – 1981) Serenade Op.35
237 Reena Esmail (1983 –) Jhula Jhule
238 John Williams (1932 –) War Horse
239 Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 – 1972) The Spirit of the Old House, Op.58
240 Gabriela Lena Frank (1972 –) Three Latin American Dances
241 Michael Torke (1961 –) Last Fall
242 Mark O'Connor (1961 – ) Appalachia Waltz
243 Wynton Marsalis (1961 –) Violin Concerto (1. Rhapsody)
244 John Frederick Peter (1746 – 1813) Quintet 1 in D
245 John Knowles Paine (1839 – 1906) Funeral March in Memory of Lincoln, Op.9
246 Merit Woodruff (1780 – 1799) Cradle Hymn
247 Victor Herbert (1859 – 1924) Cello Concerto 2
248 Jessie Montgomery (1981 – ) Coincident Dances
249 Max Steiner (1888 – 1971) The Adventures of Don Juan
250 Horatio Parker (1863 – 1919) Three Characteristic Pieces