For Thanksgiving Day (and beyond): Eugene Ormandy conducts Charles Ives’s A Symphony: New England Holidays (and other Ives pieces). The second half of this ambitious October ’74 Philadelphia Orchestra concert was Liszt’s magnum opus for organ – Fantasy & Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ – orchestrated/played by Pierre Cochereau.

Nov 27, 2025 | Videos | 0 comments

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Music begins at 16:47.

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.

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