Thanksgiving Special: “Giving Thanks”
Thursday November 25: THANKSGIVING SPECIAL FROM APM (American Public Media)
Giving Thanks
“Giving Thanks” shares music and stories that reflect the meaning of gratitude.
Special guests for 2021: Stanley Tucci joins our Thanksgiving table to talk about his new book Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir about food, family, and life – and his classic foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia. Naomi Shihab Nye shares her poems celebrating her Palestinian-American heritage, and our shared humanity.
“Giving Thanks” sounds the way Thanksgiving feels: inviting, warm, and festive. No clichés about pilgrims and pumpkin pies. Instead, it’s a contemporary, thoughtful celebration of spirit of the holiday. Music from Eric Whitacre, Bach, Copland and more complete the scene.
John Birge, host; Stanley Tucci, guest; Naomi Shihab Nye, guest
HOUR I
Traditional: We Gather Together - Boston Pops
Henry Purcell: The Yorkshire Feast Song: Symphony - Kings Consort
Stanley Tucci on Thanksgiving and family
Francisco Torroba: The Harvest - Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Jean Sibelius: The Harvesters - Kansas City Symphony/Michael Stern
Schumann: Scenes from Childhood - Claudio Arrau, piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8, “Pathetique”: 2nd mvt. - Claudio Arrau, piano
Naomi Shihab Nye reads “Daily”
Ludovico Einaudi I Giorni (The Days) - La Pieta
Puccini: O mio babbino caro - Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Mendelssohn: Concert piece No. 2: 3rd mvt - Sabine & Wolfgang Meyer, clarinets
Stanley Tucci on the meaning of food
Copland: Our Town - James Tocco, piano
Handel: Largo - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: November - Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Francis Purcell Warren: A Sunday Evening in Autumn - Stephen Isserlis, cello; Stephen Hough, piano
Naomi Shihab Nye reads “Muchos Gracias por Todo”
Bernstein: Candide: Make our Garden Grow - Boston Pops
HOUR II
Traditional: Thanksgiving Hymns - Jacqueline Schwab, piano
Stanley Tucci on illness, recovery, and gratitude
di Capua: O Sole Mio - Paula Robison, flute; Charleston Symphony
Verdi: Rigoletto: La donna e mobile - Enrico Caruso, tenor
Beethoven: Contredanses - Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Naomi Shihab Nye reads “Arabic Coffee”
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason: Harvest Home Suite: Thanksgiving Hymn
Eric Whitacre: October - North Texas Wind Symphony
Trad, arr. Stephen Paulus: We Gather Together - Dale Warland Singers