GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores three icons of 'The Greatest Generation', a turbulent period of adversity and achievement in the United States of America spanning the Great Depression of the 1930s through the Second World War. Mount Rushmore is a dramatic oratorio inspired by the monumental sculpture of four American presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota. Radio City is a symphonic fantasy on the legendary Arturo Toscanini, who conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in live radio broadcasts heard by millions across America. The Gospel According to Sister Aimee is an organ concerto inspired by the rise, fall and redemption of religious celebrity Aimee Semple McPherson. Under the masterful baton of Music Director Carl St. Clair, the renowned Pacific Symphony is joined by Pacific Chorale, one of America's greatest choirs, and GRAMMY Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs.

Tracklist:

Mount Rushmore: I. George Washington
Mount Rushmore: II. Thomas Jefferson
Mount Rushmore: III. Theodore Roosevelt
Mount Rushmore: IV. Abraham Lincoln
Radio City: Symphonic Fantasy On Arturo Toscanini And The Nbc Symphony Orchestra: I. O Brave New World
Radio City: Symphonic Fantasy On Arturo Toscanini And The Nbc Symphony Orchestra: II. Ode To The Old World
Radio City: Symphonic Fantasy On Arturo Toscanini And The Nbc Symphony Orchestra: III. On The Air
The Gospel According To Sister Aimee: I. Knock Out The Devil
The Gospel According To Sister Aimee: II. An Evangelist Drowns - Desert Dance
The Gospel According To Sister Aimee: III. To The Promised Land

UPC: 636943974926
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 4.30.13
Format: CD

Paulus/Hopkins - Mount Rushmore (CD)