American concert music is often associated in the public imagination with the ragtime and jazz that had such an influence on it. In this recording dedicated to 20th-century American composers, David Lively hope you will find Billie Holiday’s timbre, Marilyn Monroe’s sexy voice, Miles Davis’s plaintive wail, his grandmother’s vernacular, the fun of a good ballgame he remember as a kid. The American dream is alive and kicking.
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