Here are the Americans whose compositions you'll be hearing sprinkled throughout the day on July 4th. Learn more about them when you click their names below and follow the links. And here's a link to our playlist for Independence Day (selections appear only after they start playing).
***Not an American composer but had a profound effect on the American musical idiom (Link to real story of Goin’ Home - text to which was set to the Adagio Largo from Dvorak’s Ninth Symphony.