ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

American Wind Symphony Orchestra

Robert Austin Boudreau, Music Director


Down by the Riverside (4:42 )

Orchestration - James Drake


Square Dance '76, Opus 105 (4:50)

Paul Creston

Ashley Alexander with the AWSO


Take the 'A' Train (5:33)

Billy Strayhorn

Arrangement, Rob McConnell


Georgia on My Mind (3:54)

W. Donaldson

Arrangement, Frank Mantooth


That Old Black Magic (3:43)

Harold Arlen

Arrangement, Frank Mantooth


Pickle Suite (14:08)

Narrated by Samuel Hazo


          The Failure to Compose the Oratorio About the Pickle

          Poet: George Starbuck (Without Music Accompaniment)


          Overture

          Robert Russell Bennett


          A Cucumber's Pickle

          Oliver Nelson

          Poet: William Cole


          Meditation for a Pickle Suite

          Shulamit Ran

          Poet: R.H.W. Dillard


          Rhyme for the Very Pickled

          Jacques Casterede

          Poet: Samuel Hazo


          Polly Picklenose

          Henk Badings

          Poet: Leroy F. Jackson


          Pickle

          Robert Russell Bennett


I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (2:37)

Orchestration, James Drake


Pete Seeger with the AWSO


This Land is Your Land (3:06)

Orchestration, Philip Lang


Jacob's Ladder (3:41)

Orchestration, James Drake


Little Birdie (2:45)

Orchestration, Philip Lang


Michael, Row the Boast Ashore (2:57)

Orchestration, James Drake


If I Had a Hammer (2:17)

Orchestration, James Drake


Battle Hymn of the Republic (4:46)

Orchestration, Lyndol Mitchell


American Tribute (8:06)

Philip Lang


The Sting (5:13)

Orchestration, James Drake


total time 72:18


Producer and Editor: Nathan Kroll. Sound Engineer: Blake Norton.
Remastered and Manufactured by: Digital Dynamics Audio Inc.,
Pittsburgh, PA. All rights reserved by: C.F. Peters Corporation.
Recorded in Soldiers and Sailors Hall, Pittsburgh, 1985

CD Recordings of Original Compositions with guest artists Pete Seeger and Ashley Alexander
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