A Fireworks Soundtrack

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Join VPR host Joe Goetz on July 4th for a special fireworks musical extravaganza on Monday, July 4th at 9:00pm.

Highlights will include Victor Herbert’s An American Fantasia, George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and The Stars and Stripes Forever from John Philip Sousa.

Playlist:
9:01 pm
  • American Fantasia
  • Composer: Victor Herbert
  • Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
  • CD/Album: Leonard Slatkin Conducts American Portraits
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 60983
9:12 pm
  • Divertimento: March
  • Composer: Leonard Bernstein
  • Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
  • CD/Album: The Artist's Album-Leonard Bernstein
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 457691
9:16 pm
  • Music for the Royal Fireworks , HWV 351
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Ensemble: Zefiro
  • Conductor: Alfredo Bernardini
  • CD/Album: Handel: Musick for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 367912
9:39 pm
  • 1812 Overture , Op. 49
  • Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
  • CD/Album: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 - Romeo and Juliet - 1812 Overture
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 68045
9:54 pm
  • Stars and Stripes Forever March
  • Composer: John Philip Sousa
  • Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
  • CD/Album: The American Album
  • Record co./Cat #: RCA 60778

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