A Labor Day Special with a hint of political activism. Pianist Guy Livingston introduces us to his upcoming interviewees: pianist Sarah Cahill; composer Dan Moses Schreier; and singer Justin Hopkins. And weaves their stories together with music of Kurt Weill, John Cage, Django Reinhardt, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Marc Blitzstein. (of course!)

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #93: Labor Day Special

Theme Music:

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

“American Highways” Jingle

Sounds About Right

composed for Concertzender

A Winged Victory for the Sullen

We Played Some Open Chords And Rejoiced, For The Earth Had Circled The Sun Yet Another Year

A Winged Victory for the Sullen

ERATP032CD

Paul Robeson Jr. & Lawrence Brown

The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe’s Birthday Song) From the Opera No for an Answer

Paul Robeson

Sony BMG Music 1997 re-release

Marc Blitzstein

Scherzo, “Bourgeois At Play” (1930) & Piano Percussion Music (1929) Toccata

Sarah Cahill, pianist

Other Minds OM 1017-2 (2009)

Dan Moses Schreier

Exotic

Dan Moses Schreier, electronics

innova 113

Rouget de Lisle

La Marseillaise (arrangement by Django Reinhardt)

Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grapelli

EMI 2C 178-14933/4

Milan Hlavsa

Prohrála v Kartách

Plastic People of the Universe

Levné Knihy ‎– LK 0775-2

Kurt Weill

Pirate Jenny (1954 version)

Lotte Lenya, singer

Bear Family Records BCD16019

Paul Bowles

Music for a Farce: Allegretto

David Glazer, Herbert C. Mueller, Elden C. Bailey, William Masselos

Other Minds 1024

John Cage

String Quartet in Four Parts: Quietly Flowing Along

New Music String Quartet

Other Minds 1024

closing music:

David King

Super America

The Bad Plus

E1 Records: EOM-CD-2112

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