Early Americas: New France - This week on Harmonia, we're exploring music in and about the Americas during the first centuries of European colonization. We begin our journey in New France with the musical legacies of Jesuit missions, fur trading outposts, and occupied indigenous nations.
For most of the United States, this is the weekend to "spring ahead" and turn your clock forward an hour! It's true! Time to to return to Daylight Saving Time. Don't worry, I have some cheerful, upbeat music to help you make up for that lost hour of sleep.
Kurt Masur conducts selections from Romeo and Juliet; Zubin Mehta conducts Koussevitzky's concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra with Eugene Levinson as soloist; and Leonard Bernstein conducts the Shostakovich Symphony No. 14.
Organist Mark Anderson is joined by soprano Charlene Canty to perform music of Milhaud, Marchand, Andreissen and Clerambault. Recorded at the summer St. Paul Cathedral Concert Series on July 25, 2021.