This week’s commercial record program opens with the medley from Victory at Sea composed by Richard Rodgers and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennet for a documentary series about World War II. Leonard Bernstein is the conductor of Aaron Copland’s heroic Third Symphony, followed by The Airborne Symphony by Marc Blitzstein.
American Musical Treasures Conducted by Rodgers and Bernstein
Richard Rodgers, 1961
Playlist
Richard Rodgers (arr. Robert Russell Bennett): Victory at Sea: Suite
Richard Rodgers, conductor
Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Marc Blitzstein: The Airborne Symphony
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
