For this Saturday night, we sample music that symbolizes the ease, spiritual searching, religiosity, and quiet clamor that make Sunday mornings uniquely special.
For many of us Sunday is a day of relaxation or spiritual rejuvenation. Songwriter Lionel Ritchie sang about being easy like Sunday morning, Duke Ellington enticed Mahalia Jackson with a song called "Come Sunday," and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quipped that 11:00 am on Sunday was the most segregated hour in our country.
We get these and other perspectives on this edition of All Ears.
Playlist
The City: Sunday Traffic
Aaron Copland
Eos Orchestra
Jonathan Sheffer, conductor
Telarc
Come Sunday
Edward ellington
Mulgrew Miller, piano
Niels-Henning Pederson, bass
Bang & Olufsen
Autumn Song
Paul Moravec
Marya Martin, flute
Jeewon Park, piano
Naxos
In the Beginning
Aaron Copland
Corydon Singers
Matthew Best, conductor
Catherine Denley, mezzo
Hyperion
Symphony No. 3 "Sunday Symphony"
William Grant Still
North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Carlton Woods, conductor
Cambria
Serenade for Double Bass, Harp and String Quartet Charlie Barnett Robert Oppelt, double bass Dotian LEvalier, harp Elisabeth Adkins, violin Paula Akbar, violin Ruth Wicker Schaaf, viola James Lee, cello MSR
Cantata No. 104 "Du hirte Israel, hore"
J.S. Bach
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
elisabeth von Magnus, alto
Paul Agnew, tenor
Klaus Mertens, bass
Erato
Concerto grosso
Ellen Taaffe Zwillich
Louisville Orchestra
James Sedares, conductor
Koch
The Archangel Trip
Gavin Bryars
Icebreaker
Cantaloupe
Gloomy Sunday
Reszo Seress
Billy Holiday
Okeh Records