American Folklore

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Label
Nimbus
Release Date
September 5, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Yale Symphony Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 05, 2025
    • UPC
      0710357646225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI6462
    • LABEL
      Nimbus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Spring

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    2. II. Meander

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    3. III. Giggling Rapids

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    4. IV. Lake

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    5. I. Introduction: The Open Prairie

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    6. II. Street in a Frontier Town -

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    7. II. Mexican Dance and Finale

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    8. III. Prairie Night: Card Game at Night, Billy and his Sweetheart)

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    9. IV. Gun Battle

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    10. V. Celebration: After Billy's Capture

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    11. VI. Billy's Death

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    12. VII. The Open Prairie again

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    13. Dreamtime Ancestors: II. Rainbow Serpent

      Composer: Christopher Theofanidis

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    14. Symphonic Fantasy

      Composer: Bernard Rands

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton

    15. Of Our New Day Begun

      Composer: Omar Thomas

      Ensemble: Yale Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: William Boughton


The Yale Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1965 by a group of students who saw the growing potential for a large orchestral ensemble to thrive on campus. With a spirit for promoting new music and performing underrepresented composers alongside works of the standard Western canon, the orchestra has become a destination for students who wish to perform orchestral music at the conservatory level while taking advantage of all that Yale - a liberal-arts institution - has to offer. In it's more than fifty years, the orchestra has performed in some of the most hallowed music halls in the United States from Carnegie Hall in New York to Benaroya Hall in Seattle, toured twelve countries including Turkey, Russia, Brazil and Mexico, and premiered over fifty works of new music by composers including Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, and Caroline Shaw. YSO alumni have music careers in major orchestras around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and the Berlin Philharmonic. The YSO is led by William Boughton, who is in his seventh and final year conducting the orchestra.