New York (1999)

About this title: The soundtrack to Ric Burns' six-part PBS documentary New York traces the origins of its citizens and culture through music. Irish and Italian music such as Cherish The Ladies' rendition of the traditional tune "Famine Irish" and the New York Orchestra's performance of Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro" represent the heritage of New York City's immigrant population, while marches, ragtime, jazz and pop standards complete the city's thriving musical creativity. Energetic pieces like John Phillip Sousa's "Manhattan Beach March" and Scott Joplin's "Wall Street Rag" convey the rapid pace of urban ... read more

Tracks:

1. Hamilton's Theme [Keane]
2. City of Dreams [Keane]
3. Back to the Apple [Basie/Foster]
4. Rhapsody in Blue [Excerpt 1] [Gershwin]
5. Hamilton Returns [Keane]
6. Transformation [Keane]
7. Diverse Bizarrie Sopra de Vecchia Sarabanda O Pur Ciaccona [Matteis]
8. Famine Irish [Traditional]
9. The Last Rose of Summer [Traditional]
10. Manhattan Beach [Sousa]
11. O Mio Babbino Caro [Puccini]
12. Out of the Harbor [Keane]
13. Hamilton's Theme [Slow Reprise] [Keane]
14. Dark History Waltz [Burns/Keane]
15. Wall Street Rag [Joplin]
16. Rhapsody in Blue [Excerpt 2] [Gershwin]
17. Anything Goes [Porter]
18. Trouble [Keane]
19. Dark History Theme [Burns/Keane]
20. Take the "A" Train [Strayhorn]
21. New York, New York [Dance from On the Town's Excerpt] [Bernstein/Comden/Gr]
22. City of Dreams (Reprise) [Keane]
23. Rhapsody in Blue [Excerpt 3] [Gershwin]
24. Just the Way You Look Tonight [Kern/Fields]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.