November 27, Thanksgiving Day
Glenn Miller’s “civilian band”, July 16, 1942, Chicago; Rhapsody in Blue, arr. Bill Finegan.
United States Marine Band and – at 3:35 – Chicago SO/Georg Solti.
… or, the S’s steal the show…
Charles Ives’s Thanksgiving Day/Leonard Bernstein. Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby. ‘America’ (from West Side Story, dir. Spielberg, 2021). ‘Turkey in the Straw’/Burl Ives. Leonard Slatkin conducts William Schuman’s American Festival Overture. Glenn Miller’s version of Rhapsody in Blue. Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever.
Solti, Stars & Stripes:
Recorded: 1986-01-27
Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago.