The right playlist is essential for creating the perfect atmosphere. This playlist blends classical and electronic music that helps you lower your heart rate and find peace, ideal for relaxation, meditation, yoga and sleeping.

Classical Relaxation

Kol Nidrei: Adagio on Hebrew Melodies, Op. 47- Max Bruch

Roy Harris was born in a log cabin in rural Oklahoma on Lincoln’s birthday in 1898. His earliest musical experiences were the sounds of his mother singing folk songs to the accompaniment of his father's guitar. Harris worked on his parents’ farm from a young age, and later worked as a truckdriver to pay his way through college at UCLA and UC Berkeley. 
Throughout the 1930s, Harris developed an indigenous American style, part of  the populist movement connected with WPA-sponsored efforts to bring art and music to the support of the American working class. “Music for the people” meant using the people’s music, and the blending of popular and serious music that ensued had everything to do with the physical America, inspired as it is by the voices of Americans. 
Harris' "American Ballads" are spare and contemplative adaptations of traditional folksongs, including "The Bird", a traditional song from new England.  

Roy Harris: American Ballads - The Bird

From "A Billie Holiday Songbook" on the Steinway & Sons Records label. This solo piano tribute to the great Lady Day has been called "simply shimmering, stunning..." by WDUQ Jazz, and “possibly the most intriguing Holiday tribute” of this centenary year by Jazz Weekly.

I Cover The Waterfront

Pianist Lara Downes will release her next solo album, America Again, worldwide on Sono Luminus on October 28, 2016. The album’s title is taken from Langston Hughes’ poem, Let America Be America Again, written in 1938. America Again features twenty pieces selected by Downes that explore the elusive but essential American dream, written by composers including Duke Ellington, Lou Harrison, Morton Gould, Amy Beach, George Gershwin, Angélica Negrón, Dan Visconti, Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, Florence Price, Aaron Copland, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker, and more.

Angélica Negrón: Sueno Recurrente (clip)

Adès: Living Toys

Adès: Arcadiana, Op. 12: VI. O Albion

The catchiest country "list song" you've heard...

Warner/Chappell Song Demos

"Crazy Love"

"We Don't Want Your Tiny Hands, Anywhere Near Our Underpants"

This is the chant that Fiona Apple created for the "Women’s March" in Washington, DC January 21st, 2017. She recorded it on a phone. 
m-Dub (Michael Whalen)produced the track and the mix. 

https://www.womensmarch.com

"Tiny Hands" Women's March Chant (featuring Fiona Apple)

Written, Composed, Performed, Produced, Recorded, and Engineered by Jonathan Singletary
Jay Troop - Electric Guitars
Elaine Welteroth - Backing Vocals

Long Way Home

Lara Downes is among the foremost American pianists of her generation, a trailblazer on and off-stage whose musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family, and collective memory. 

Downes’ playing has been called “ravishing” by Fanfare Magazine, "luscious, moody and dreamy” by The New York Times, and "addicting" by The Huffington Post. As a chart-topping recording artist, a powerfully charismatic performer, a curator and taste-maker, Downes is recognized as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene.Lara's forays into the broad landscape of American music have created a series of acclaimed recordings, including America Again, selected by NPR as one of "10 Albums that Saved 2016", and hailed as "a balm for a country riven by disunion" by the Boston Globe. Her recent Sony Classical debut release For Lenny debuted in the Billboard Top 20 and was awarded the 2017 Classical Recording Foundation Award.

Her Sony Masterworks recording Holes in the Sky, a celebration of the contributions of phenomenal women to the past, present and future of American music, was released in March 2019, debuting at the top of the Billboard charts. Her newest release For Love Of You marks her concerto recording debut, and celebrates the 200th birthday of the great pianist and composer Clara Schumann.

 Downes enjoys creative collaborations with a range of leading artists, including multi-instrumentalist/composer/singer Rhiannon Giddens, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, folk icon Judy Collins, baritone Thomas Hampson, writer Adam Gopnik, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Her close partnerships with prominent composers span genres and generations, with premieres and commissions coming from Jennifer Higdon, John Corigliano, Stephen Schwartz, Paola Prestini, Clarice Assad, Michael Abels, and many others. 

Downes’ fierce commitment to arts advocacy, mentorship and education sees her working in support of non-profit organizations including PLAN International, the Sphinx Organization, the Lower Eastside Girls Club, Washington Performing Arts, and NPR’s From The Top, where she appears as a rotating guest host. 
Lara Downes is a Yamaha Artist.

Angélica Negrón: Sueno Recurrente (clip)

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