Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Ballets:-L'Oiseau de feu (1910)-Petrushka (1911)-Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)

-Diaghilev, Nijinsky

-Conversations with Igor Stravinsky -Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

♪ The Rite Of Spring, Part I, Introduction, Augurs Of Spring, Dance Of The Youths (DWMA 182)

1. Adoration of the Earth-The Augers of Spring

– Dance of the Youths and Maidens-Ritual of Abduction-Games of Ritual Tribes-Procession of the Sage-Dance of the Earth

2. The Sacrifice-Introduction-Mystic Circles of the Adolescents-Glorification of the Chosen One-Evocation of the Ancestors-Ritual of the Ancestors-Sacrificial Dance

♪ Symphony of Psalms, 2nd mvmt. (DWMA 183)

-Symphony in C-Symphony in 3 Movements

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

-Prix de Rome

-Fontainebleau

♪ Sept Melodies (Seven Melodies) No. 7 “J’ai frappe” (I have knocked)

Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990)

-El Salon Mexico

-Bonyparte ♪ Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes

IV. Hoedown

♪ Appalachian Spring (DWMA 184)

♪ Fanfare for the Common Man

♪ Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

George Gershwin (1898 – 1937)

- Porgy & Bess (1935)

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

-Carl Sandburg

-John and Alan Lomax

“Boulangerie”

Virgil Thomson (1896 – 1989)

Roy Harris (1898-1979)

Roger Sessions (1896 – 1985)

Walter Piston (1894 – 1976)

William Grant Still (1895 – 1978)

♪ Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American Symphony” (1930)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

-Chorôs

♪ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

-Estancias

Carlos Chávez (1899 – 1978)

-Sinfonía India -La hija de Cólquide

Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992)

♪ Catalogue d’oisseaux (Catalogue of Birds)4th mvmt., “Le Traquet Stapazin” (The Blackeared Wheatear)

♪ Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte Trinite (Meditations on the mystery of the Holy Trinity) (DWMA 185)

♪ Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) 6th movt., “Dance of fury for the seven trumpets”