Americana - Song and Musik from an America gone by...

A one hour program including Aaron Copeland's "Old American Songs", drawing upon the minstrels shows and other popular music of the early 1800s and George Gershwin's "Preludes" drawing upon the music of the dawn of the jazz age in the early 1900s. Between pieces, lyric tenor John Paval brings to life the people and places and uniquely American cutlure which lay behind this distinctively American song cycle...