Music of Alan Hovanness, Carl Ruggles, Bernard Hermann, and the Ives Brothers: that’s Charles Ives, and Burl Ives, right?

In this episode of American Highways, pianist Guy Livingston brings us weighty, powerful, serious music by rugged, maverick, heavily bearded composers. The mountain is a handy metaphor – for the insignificance of man perhaps, for the attainment of spiritual wisdom, for the conquering of our fears; and a reminder that ours is a planet built on nature’s awesome strength. This is music about mountains.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #80: MUSIC ABOUT MOUNTAINS

Theme Music :

Jan Jeroen (J.J.) Spijkervet & Immersive Sound

“American Highways” Jingle

Sounds About Right

composed for Concertzender

Bernard Hermann

from North by Northwest

Hollywood Orch

SK62700

Carl Ruggles (1876-1971)

Men and Mountains

Men

Lilacs

Marching Mountains

Christoph Von Dohnányi: Cleveland Orchestra

Decca 443 776-2

Jerome Alexander

Mountains

Message to Bears

http://messagetobears.com/album/folding-leaves

Alan Hovhaness

Moutains and Rivers Without End

Richard Auldon Clark conducts the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

Koch 3-7221-2H1

John Luther Adams

Among Red Mountains

Lisa Moore, pianist

Cantaloupe Music 21115

Trad; Arr Siegmeister

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Burl Ives

Disc 1 NOT Records 2CD0203

Charles Ives

From The Steeples & The Mountains

Michael Tilson Thomas: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

BMG 09026 63703 2

Sam Amidon

Blue Mountains

Sam Amidon

Nonesuch 543642-1

Closing Music:

David King

Super America

The Bad Plus

E1 Records: EOM-CD-2112

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Written by Nathalie Handal. This poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.