Giving Thanks is a music-and-stories celebration of Thanksgiving. Host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday.
HOUR I
Traditional (arr. Kremser): We Gather Together -Boston Pops/John Williams
Tchaikovsky: November from The Seasons -Moscow Chamber Orchestra/Constantine Orbelian
John Updike reads two November poems
Stephen Reynolds: Chanson d'Automne -Stephen Hough, piano
John Updike reads his poem "To a Skylark"
Traditional, arr. Peter Hope: The Lark in the Clear Air -Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland
Haydn: Hunting Chorus from "The Seasons: Autumn" -Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
Bill Holm reads "The Island of Pheasants on the West Eighty"
Mozart: Laudate Dominum -Barbara Bonney, soprano, English Concert/Trevor Pinnock
Mozart: "Haffner" Serenade: Rondo -Pamela Frank, violin, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra/David Zinman
Pamela Frank's Thanksgiving Stuffing from Hell
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1: 3rd movement -Pamela Frank, violin; Claude Frank, piano
Kevin Kling reads Prayer from "The Dog Says How"
HOUR II
Don Ray: The Joys of Daily Living from "Homestead Dances" -Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra/Derek Gleeson
Carl Sandburg: Happiness -Read by Studs Terkel
Alan Menken: Lincoln -Studio Orchestra
Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 -Read by Dan Olson.
Anne Frank: From "Diary of a Young Girl" -Read by Ellen Kushner
Leonard Bernstein: Simple Song from "Mass" -Roberta Alexander, soprano
Kevin Kling reads Grace from "Holiday Inn"
Marcel Grandjany: Automne -Anne-Marguerite Michaud, harp
From Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums," Chartres Cathedral story; Psalm 104 -Read by Charles Laughton
Traditional: We Gather Together (arr. Stephen Paulus) -Dale Warland Singers
STATION TOUR
Take a photographic tour of WUOT's studio
