Featured on today's program were excerpts from Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saens wrote this work while secluding himself in a small Austrian village after a disastrious concert tour. He regarded the work as a piece of fun. It is widely regarded as his best known work and popular with music teachers and young children.
1. Edgard Meyer, Sliding Down, Edgar Meyer, Mike Marshall, Bela Fleck
2. Franz Schubert, Impromptu in G flat major, Kyoko Tabe
3. Traditional Spiritual, Deep River, Chanticleer
4. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, The Lusty Month of May, Julie Andrews
5. Sergei Prokofiev, The Love of Three Oranges, Joshua Bell, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
6. Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D, Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Francois Paillard
7. Traditional Spiritual, Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep, Fisk Jubilee Singers
8. George Gershwin, Three Preludes for Piano, Findlay Cockrell
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Horn Concert No. 4 in E flat, Ab Koster, Tafelmusik, Bruno Weil
10. Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati
11. Stephen Foster, The Merry Merry Month of May, New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, Raymond Beegle
12. Stephen Foster, My Old Kentucky Home, Eric Rogers Chorale and Orchestra
13. Andrew Lloyd Weber, Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera, Johann Strauss Orchestra, Andre Rieu
14. Camille Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
15. Georges Bizet, excerpts from Carmen, Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of Covent Garden, Sir Georg Solti
16. Yosef Hadam, Evening of Roses, Sheku Kanneh -Mason and Guy Johnston
17. Antonin Dvorak, Song to the Moon from Rusalka, Anna Nebtrepko, Vienna Philharmonic Orcheestra, Gianandrea Noseda
18. Antonin Dvorak, Symphonic Variations, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
19. Camille Saint-Saens, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Itzhak Pearlman, New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
20. Peter Maxwell Davies, The Beltane Fire, BBC Philharmonic, Peter Maxwell Davies
21. Gang Chen Zhanhoe He, Butterfly Lovers Concerto, Gil Shaham, Singapore Symphony Orcherta, Lan Shui
22. Unknown, Johann Week/Fransicso de la Toree: Hopper Dance, The Empire Brass
23. Peter Heidrich, Happy Birthday Variations, Kremerata Baltica
24. George M. Cohen, Four Cohan Songs: Give my regards to Broadway, I’m a Yankee Doodle Dany, Over There, You’re a Grand old Flag, Ceremonial Brass and Singing Sergeants, U.S. Air Force Concert Band
25. Edward Grieg, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Utah Symphony, Maurice Abravanel
26. Peter Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman
27. Giacomo Puccini, O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi, Mirella Freni
28. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Something Wonderful from The King and I, Renee Fleming, BBC Concert Orlchestra, Rob Fisher
29. Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 2 “The Romantic” Eastman Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson