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November 2008
We'll gather together with best-selling author Harold Kushner, and a perfect blessing from poet Galway Kinnell. With music and stories for Thanksgiving, it's Giving Thanks, a Celebration of Fall, Food, and Gratitude
Rabbi Harold Kushner is the best-selling author of "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" and "Living a Life that Matters." He speaks with warmth and eloquence about the meaning of gratitude in everyday life. Kushner also shares how his teenage son's death opened his heart to experience Thanksgiving more fully.
Galway Kinnell is a distinguished American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book award. He'll share several poems that make a perfect Thanksgiving blessing.
Classical music is the heart and soul of Giving Thanks, and this year's selections include heartfelt, reflective performances from Lang Lang, Gustavo Dudamel, John Rutter, and the Dale Warland Singers.
 Listen to the program (hour 1)
HOUR 1
Traditional (arr. Kremser): We Gather Together
Boston Pops/John Williams
Philips CD 454391
Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner
Argo CD 417818
Harold Kushner on Gratitude
Alberto Ginastera: Estancia: Dance of the Wheat
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel
DG CD 11340
Andrew York: Muir Woods
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Sony 60274
Galway Kinnell reads "The Apple Tree"
Brahms: Intermezzo in A, Op. 118 No 2
Lang Lang, piano
Telarc CD 80524
Brahms: Fest- und Gedenkspruche: Wo ist ein so herrlich (What Nation Is There)
Millar Brass Ensemble
Crystal CD 433
Abraham Kaplan: The Lord is My Shepherd
Adagio Trio
Adagio CD 897
Harold Kushner on Gratitude in the 23rd Psalm
John Rutter: The Lord is My Shepherd
Cambridge Singers
City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter
Collegium CD 100
Traditional: Not One Sparrow is Forgotten (arr. William Hawley)
Dale Warland Singers
CD 49243
Galway Kinnell reads "Earth Sparrow"
Alec Wilder: While We're Young
Meredith d'Ambrosio, vocal
Sunnyside CD 1017
Harold Kushner on Thanksgiving as a child
Listen to the program (hour 2)
HOUR 2
Don Gillis: Symphony X: Requiem for a Hero
Sinfonia Varsovia/Ian Hobson
Albany CD 1058
Harold Kushner on Thanksgiving after his son's death
Mark Isham: A River Runs Through It
Studio Orchestra
Milan CD 35631
Galway Kinnell reads "On Hardscrabble Mountain"
Joseph Curiale: The Multitudes of One
Ensemble
Black Box CD 1050
Harold Kushner on Moses
Federico Torroba: La Siega ("Harvest")
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Albany CD 339
Galway Kinnell reads "In Fields of Summer"
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Sarah Chang, v
London Philharmonic/Bernard Haitink
EMI 55487
From Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums," Chartres Cathedral story; Psalm 104
Read by Charles Laughton
Capitol LP TBO 1650 (out-of-print)
Traditional: We Gather Together (arr. Stephen Paulus)
Dale Warland Singers
Gothic CD 49243
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