This week we pull out a scratchy LP and record it here for posterity. E. Power Biggs plays American music from the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen to it here:
Music heard in this episode:
Title: A.D. 1620 (from Sea Pieces, Op. 55 no. 3)
Composer: Edward MacDowell
Title: The London March
Composer: Anonymous
Title: Chester
Composer: William Billings
Title: The Duke of York’s March
Composer: Anonymous
Title: Captain Sargent’s (Light Infantry Company’s) Quick March
Composer: Anonymous
Title: The Unknown
Composer: Anonymous
Title: General Burgoyne’s March
Composer: Anonymous
Title: Brandywine Quickstep
Composer: Anonymous
Title: Donshier Quickstep
Composer: Oliver Holden
Title: General Washington’s March
Composer: Anonymous
Title: Concert Variations on The Star Spangled Banner
Composer: Dudley Buck
Title: The Battle of Manassas
Composer: Thomas Green Bethune
Title: Trip to Pawtucket
Composer: Oliver Shaw
Title: Finale from Tremonisha – Marching Onward (A Real Slow Drag)
Composer: Scott Joplin
Title: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Composer: John Philip Sousa
Organist: E Power Biggs
Album: Stars and Stripes Forever – Two Centuries of Heroic Music in America – Columbia LP M34129
Organs:
1708 I/4 Brattle, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts, USA
1970 III/46 CB Fisk, Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Awesome. thank you.
Thanks! Not my planned listening for the day but what could be better than Biggsie in Methuen! (Last time I was there ’twas to catch Joan Lippencott.) Pulled my copy from the shelf – (and btw your playlist omits the Hewett, suitable to horrify the builder at a harpsochord opening.) You’ve improved the day.