American Composers

[arpeggio]

12 tone - craggy....I used to have this on a long forgotten LP; Strangely, the organ soloist was never mentioned?...Bizarre!
Surely there must be more Riegger that is worthwhile....

Riegger has fallen out of favor.

The works you mentioned I am not familiar with. 

He composed tonal works as well as atonal works.  His Dance Rhythms is an example of his tonal works.

Attached is a list of the Riegger recordings in my library.  One can find samples of these on You Tube.

[relm1]

I really prefer the original orchestration for chamber group.

Agreed.  But I also prefer it as conceived with Martha Graham choreography. 

[krummholz]

This forum always delivers with the recommendations. Thanks for all the pieces, fellas!

You're welcome (though some of us aren't "fellas" )!

[Karl Henning]

You're welcome (though some of us aren't "fellas" )!

(* chortle *)

[Cato]

Another man whose works we have not yet mentioned or remembered: Henry Cowell!

e.g.

[Roy Bland]

[pjme]

Hadley's Lucifer deserves a state of the art recording ! I'm sure many will love this bombastic  epic score - reminiscent of Liszt, Bax and -maybe -some Respighi.

from Musicweb:
The Conductor, John McLaughlin Williams, adds a personal note:-Doing Hadley was fascinating from the beginning. I had, of course, heard what little was available of Hadley on LP and CD. The Krueger 2nd symphony is a valiant effort but not well-played (if you've got a score), and has sound which does Hadley an extreme disservice. Hadley's magic is in the sound. I looked at about twenty scores. The program I arrived at was not my original choice, though the present program does not suffer at all for that. My original choice was the tone poem Lucifer and the 5th symphony, but their requirement for an organ put them out of the picture. (No organ at the Grand Hall!)

[pjme]

Richard Yardumian  - re listening after several years of oblivion - and really enjoying this big boned, serious music.