American Characters

Ep 1

Songs about real and fictional characters in American history, including poets, preachers, and a president. The program introduces topics heard throughout the series.

Songs

My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free1759Francis HopkinsonThomas Parnell Willie, We Have Missed You1862Stephen FosterStephen Foster Ethiopia Saluting the Colors1915Henry T. BurleighWalt Whitman Danny Deever1897Walter DamroschRudyard Kipling The Dodger1950 · Old American Songs, Set 1Aaron Copland General William Booth Enters Into Heaven1926Sidney HomerVachel Lindsay Charlie Rutlage1920Charles Ives Song of the Deathless Voice1908 · Three Indian Songs, Op. 32Arthur FarwellArthur Farwell A Working Woman1989 · Songs From LettersLibby LarsenCalamity Jane Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?1950 · Twelve Poems of Emily DickinsonAaron CoplandEmily Dickinson Madam and the Census Man1964 · Madam To YouElie SiegmeisterLangston Hughes Richard Cory1948 · Four Poems by Edwin Arlington RobinsonJohn Woods DukeEdwin Arlington Robinson Letter to Mrs. Bixby2009Michael DaughertyAbraham Lincoln