God Bless America: A Salute to America's Great Composers

Anonymous (Composer), Samuel A. Ward (Composer), John Philip Sousa (Composer), George Gershwin (Composer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Don George (Composer), John [Film Composer] Williams (Composer), Irving Berlin (Composer), Andrew Lane (Conductor), Orlando Pops Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Orlando Pops Orchestra
• Conductor: Andrew Lane
• Composer: Anonymous, Samuel A. Ward, John Philip Sousa, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, et al.
• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Madacy Records
• ASIN: B000000LH9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Armed Forces Salute: Anthems of the U.S....

2. America the Beautiful

3. El Capitan

4. Liberty Bell

5. Porgy and Bess

6. Shaker's Melody from Apalachian Spring

7. Yellow Rose of Texas

8. Liberty Fanfare

9. Hoedown

10. God Bless America

11. Strike up the Band

Customer Reviews

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9 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Renneau Garmon's Review of "God Bless America", March 6, 2000

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Tom Flynn/Renneau M. Garmon (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: God Bless America: A Salute to America's Great Composers (Audio CD)

On hearing the broadcast of Frank Patterson and his Irish musicians in the program "God Bless America" one realizes that one has had a rare and important experience. Frank Patterson's voice caresses each note bringing the full beauty of the melody to flower with perfect diction seldom heard. He needs no other voices to back him up; his versatility is astonishing as displayed from the "Poignant Grace" through the delightful and flip "The Miller's Daughter" to the full voiced and exhuberant "O Solo Mio."

The stirring "csardas" of Geraldine O'Grady and her accomplished daughter, Oonagh O'Grady, brought a lovely interlude excitingly performed drawing the audience to participate at the innovative introduction of some Irish Folk Music known to all as the finisher. Eily Patterson and her orchestra of 50 Irish Harps was a rarely heard and delightful experience. Hearing the family, Eily, Frank and Eanan was inspirational!

This is an outstanding example of Irish music at its best.

Sincerely,

Renneau M. Garmon