Gordon: Campaign Songs / Kronos Quartet

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Label
Cantaloupe Music
Release Date
October 6, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Kronos Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Michael Gordon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2023
    • UPC
      713746318710
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CA21187
    • LABEL
      Cantaloupe Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Era
    Works ⌄

    1. The Star Spangled Banner (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: John Stafford Smith

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    2. America the Beautiful (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Samuel A. Ward

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    3. God Bless America (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Irving Berlin

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    4. Taps (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Daniel Adams Butterfield

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    5. When Johnny Comes Marching Home (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    6. This Land is Your Land (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Woody Guthrie

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    7. Dixie (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Daniel Decatur Emmett

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

    8. Which Side Are You On? (arr. M. Gordon for string quartet)

      Composer: Florence Reece

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet


Premiered online between October and November 2020, Campaign Songs is a collaboration with Kronos Quartet intended to galvanize voter turnout in the upcoming election. Recorded in isolation by each member of the Quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were accompanied by specially-made video works touching on racial, climate, and economic justice issues. The pieces, arranged by Michael Gordon, draw from the canon of American patriotic, political, and folk music, including Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” “God Bless America,” (a campaign song for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his 1940 opponent Wendell Willkie), “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” (a campaign song for James A. Garfield), “America the Beautiful” and “The Star Spangled Banner.” (Limited edition 7-inch vinyl)