Opening Day at the Phillies. Recommended listening for baseball season:
John Williams, “Fanfare for Fenway” (for the Red Sox)
Charles Denler, “Take the Field” (for the Colorado Rockies)
George Kleinsinger, “Brooklyn Baseball Cantata” (with Robert Merrill, the Dodgers vs. the Yankees)
Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-vyRkeUm5M
Part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMeiTqT4kiI
P.D.Q. Bach, “New Horizons in Music Appreciation” (Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony “called” in the manner of a baseball game)
Fred Sturm, “The Green Fields of the Mind,” from “Forever Spring”
Charles Ives, “Some Southpaw Pitching”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmc018ywR6I
Charles Ives, “Baseball Take-Off”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJs64qJLqN8
William Schuman, “The Mighty Casey” (the entire opera is actually quite delightful)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_foGwX_5bk
John Philip Sousa, “The National Game”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTkPyGaGa6o
Edward Meeker, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (Edison Records, 1908)
PHOTO: Charles Ives (left) ready to play ball