Today's playlist featured music performed and arranged by Sweet Honey in the Rock. This ensemble was founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1973. The ensemble's messages are proclaimed through a large catalog of songs addressing the world's woes. Their music combines contemporary rhythms and narratives with a musical style rooted in Gospel music, spirituals and hymns.
1. Frederick Chopin, Waltz in C sharp, minor, Van Cliburn
2. Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 1 F minor, Alfred Brendel
3. Traditional, African Drum Invocation, Jessye Norman
4. Charles H. Gabriel/Civilla Durfee Martin, His Eyes is on the Sparrow, Jessye Norman
5. Oscar Rasbach/Joyce Kilmer, Trees, John Aler with Grant Gershon
6. Ethyl Smyth, Benedictus from Mass in D, Eiddwen Harrhy, Plymouth Music Series, Philip Brunelle
7. Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Canadian Brass
8. Peter Tchaikovsky, Capriccio Italien, Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
9. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, Renee Fleming
10. James Horner and Sweet Honey in the Rock, Selections from Freedom Song, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Sweet Honey in The Rock
11. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, June is busting out all over from Carousel, Brynn Terfel
12. Franz Lehar, Excerpt from second act of The Merry Widow, Elizabeth Schwarzkoph, Philharmonica Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Ackerman
13. John Rutter, For the Beauty of the Earth, Cambridge Singers, John Rutter
14. Johann Strauss II, Violetta Polka, Vienna Philharmonic, Riccardo Mutti
15. Traditional Gospel, I’ll Never Forget, Ira Tucker and the Dixie Hummingbirds
16. Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo in A major, Lang Lang
17. Gerald Finzi, Ecloque for Piano and Strings, English String Quartet, William Boughton
18. Franz Schubert, Ave Maria, Kiri te Kanewa
19. Sigmund Romberg, Desert Song, Barbara Hendricks and Gina Quilico, Opera Orchestra of Lyon, Lawrence Foster
20. George Frederick Handel, Selections from Handel’s Messiah, Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt
21. Thomas Tallis, Salvator Mundi from Music for the Divine Office, Chapelle Du Roi, Alistair Dixon
22. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vocalise, Lynn Harrell with Vladimir Ashkenazy
23. Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy, William Grosz, Red Sails in the Sunset, Nat King Cole
24. Jerome Kern, Old Man River from Showboat, Paul Robeson
25. Traditional Gospel/ Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley, We Shall Overcome, Dasha Burton with Nathaniel Gumb
26. Traditional Gospel, Soon One Morning Medley, Chanticleer
27. Aaron Copland, Symphony No. 3, Kansas City Symphony, Wiliam McGlaughlin
28. Traditional Spiritual, Motherless Child, Sweet Honey in the Rock
29. Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan, Wade in the Water, Chicago a capella, Johnathan Miller
30. Song of the Lakes, Conch and Flute Air/Crowley’s Reel, Song of the Lakes
31. John Williams and Bernard Dadie, Dry your tears, Afrika, from the Original Motion Pictue Soundtrack, Amistad, John Williams
32. Edgar Meyer, Zigeunerweisen, Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall
33. John Adams, Road Movies, Blue Violet Duo
34. Erik Satie, Six Gnossiennes, Klara Kormendi