Thanksgiving music

Posted by TGR (A) on November 25, 2015 at 09:23:03

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I actually get really irritated with the intrusion of Christmas onto Thanksgiving - "Black Friday" starting on Thanksgiving is driving me right up the wall. While I believe less government regulation is better, this is a place where I wish someone would cry "stop".

OK - off my soapbox. I have a ton of appropriate Christmas music - everything from Bach's Christmas Oratorio to "A Charlie Brown Christmas". But I always have difficulty coming up with appropriate Thanksgiving music. Maybe a mental block, but the only 3 I can think of:

Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132
Beethoven Pastorale Symphony
Copland Appalachian Spring (yeah, I know - this is like the character in Mystery Men who calls himself the Blue Rajah without wearing a stitch of blue.....but what holiday is more American than Thanksgiving, and what music is more American than Appalachian Spring?)

So - any other ideas?

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Topic - Thanksgiving music - TGR 09:23:03 11/25/15 (21)

The Meters - Chicken Strut - andy evans 06:19:56 11/28/15 (0)

Nat, Ella, Shearing, London - LWR 18:54:48 11/26/15 (1)

Nice * - Mike K 19:42:56 11/26/15 (0)

Playing right now - jec01 06:50:10 11/26/15 (0)

RE: Thanksgiving music - briggs 05:05:22 11/26/15 (0)

RE: Thanksgiving music - mkuller 14:46:02 11/25/15 (0)

Roy Harris Symphony 3, Morten Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna" - John Marks 14:05:46 11/25/15 (3)

Harris is incredible symphony. Those chord progressions! - jdaniel@jps.net 13:16:16 11/26/15 (2)

"Let's not kid ourselves," Roy Harris once wrote... (BBC YT) - John Marks 08:38:19 11/27/15 (1)

I have a handsome, pristine Bernstein Columbia 6 eye. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 17:54:12 11/27/15 (0)

RE: Thanksgiving music - Jim Treanor 12:15:07 11/25/15 (0)

Something stuffy - genungo 11:35:39 11/25/15 (2)

RE: Something stuffy - Old SteveA 12:12:44 11/27/15 (0)

LOL! - The wit flows freely today! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:50:03 11/25/15 (0)

Duke Ellington... N/T - musetap 11:30:12 11/25/15 (0)

American composers on my list - Amphissa 11:17:05 11/25/15 (0)

Dvorak's "New World" Symphony and "American" String Quartet! - John Marks 09:33:53 11/25/15 (2)

The Prince of Snarkness - Chris from Lafayette 11:23:51 11/25/15 (1)

One of my better coinages, I think--Thanks. nt - John Marks 14:06:24 11/25/15 (0)

RE: Thanksgiving music - Travis 09:30:09 11/25/15 (1)

RE: Thanksgiving music - brusson 11:13:10 11/25/15 (0)

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