Only In America? ... Conductorless National Symphony Orchestra Overlooks Grammy Award Winning Champion Of Romantic American Classical Music

"A conductor and recent local transplant was up for a Grammy Award on Sunday. It was Leonard Slatkin, the high-powered new music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, right? Wrong." ...

Mark Stryker "Conductor John McLaughlin Williams is a man without an orchestra" Detroit Free Press February 10, 2009

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Header credit: American conductor and American classical music champion John McLaughlin Williams (c) Copyright controlled.

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Some of American conductor John McLaughlin Williams's recordings of American classical music:

AMERICAN CLASSICS SAMPLER 8.559118
BLOCH, E.: Violin Concerto / LEES, B.: Violin Concerto (Oliveira) AR-0042-2
CARPENTER: Adventures in a Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 8.559065
EXPLORE AMERICA 8.559187
FLAGELLO: Missa Sinfonica / ROSNER: Symphony No. 5 8.559347
FLAGELLO: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Dante's Farewell / Concerto Sinfonico 8.559296
FLAGELLO: Violin Concerto / Orchestral Songs AR-0036-2
HADLEY: Symphony No. 4 / The Ocean / The Culprit Fay 8.559064
MCKAY: From a Moonlit Ceremony / Harbor Narrative 8.559052
MCKAY: Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains 8.559225
STORY OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE) 8.558164-65

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Another day of absolutely no American classical music on Sharon Percy Rockefeller-controlled Classical WETA-FM, so-called public radio in the Nation's Capital.








Thomas Pollock Anshutz, The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880 (detail)

Image credit: (c) De Young Museum of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 2009.

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