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November 2011
With music and stories for Thanksgiving, it's Giving Thanks: a Celebration of Fall, Food, and Gratitude.
New for 2011, two best-selling authors join us at the table:
- Nora Ephron, best-selling writer and movie director. She wrote and directed Julie & Julia, and received Oscar nominations for When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle. Ephron shares Thanksgiving stories, and a very personal gratitude list from her latest book.
- Roy Blount Jr is a writer, and a regular on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Garrison Keillor says "Roy Blount Jr is the best. He can be literate, uncouth and soulful all in one sentence." Blount remembers boyhood Thanksgiving in the South, and shares his humorous essay The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat.
Classical music is the heart and soul of Giving Thanks, and this year's selections include the world premiere performance of Table Grace, Matthew Brown's choral setting of a grace by Garrison Keillor, sung by VocalEssence. Plus classics from Bach, Copland, and more.
Between the music, no clichés about pilgrims and pumpkin pies. Instead, it's a contemporary celebration of the spirit of Gratitude. And we continue a Giving Thanks tradition shared by 300 APM stations: a spellbinding story from actor Charles Laughton, giving thanks for Art that connects us all to the creative spirit.
Listen to the program
Program Playlist
Traditional: We Gather Together
Boston Pops/John Williams
Philips CD 454391
Johann Schulz: The Harvest Feast Overture
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Christopher Hogwood
Chandos CD 9553
Nora Ephron on Thanksgiving traditions and optimism
Bernstein: Make our Garden Grow
Minnesota Orchestra/Eiji Oue
Reference CD 87
Roy Blount Jr. on appetite and boyhood Thanksgiving
Rick Sowash: Harvest Dance: Homage to Willa Cather
Terry King, cello; John Jensen, piano
Rick Sowash Publishing
Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso: First Youth
Orchestra/Henry Mancini
RCA CD 60706
Willa Cather: O Pioneers
Kate Moos, narrator
Percy Grainger: Walking Tune
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Chandos CD 9819
Ilmari Hannikainen: Harvest Dance Suite
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
YLE CD 9703
Donald Hall: The Ox-Cart Man
Donald Hall, narrator
Jean Sibelius: The Tempest: Harvesters
Hungarian State Symphony/Jussi Jalas
DG 469376
Francois Couperin: The Harvesters (Les Moissonneurs)
Angela Hewett, piano
Hyperion CD 67440
Nora Ephron on "What I Will Miss"
Howard Cable: Seasons' Celebrations: Thanksgiving Day
Symphony Nova Scotia/Howard Cable
CBC CD 5226
William Billings: An Anthem for Thanksgiving
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers/Philip Brunelle
Concert recording
Roy Blount Jr. on "The Way Folks Were Meant to Eat"
Bach: Cantata No. 29, "Wir danken Dir, Gott": Sinfonia
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
Sony CD 38915
Nora Ephron on pie as a religious experience
Matthew Brown: Table Grace
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers/Philip Brunelle
Clarion CD 940
Roy Blount Jr. on his pie song, and turkey dinner
Percy Grainger: Harvest Hymn
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
DG CD 469376
Bob Chilcott Fragments from His Dish: Grace
Chicago a capella
Centaur CD 2752
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: Harvest Home Suite: Thanksgiving Hymn
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Nashville Chamber Orchestra
EMI CD 56720
Dominick Argento: A Thanksgiving to God, for His House
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Clarion 1104
Henry Purcell: Fantasy on Old 100th
Canadian Brass
Philips CD 434276
From Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums," Chartres Cathedral story; Psalm 104
Read by Charles Laughton
Capitol LP TBO 1650 (out-of-print)
Traditional (arr. Stephen Paulus): We Gather Together
Dale Warland Singers
Gothic CD 49243
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