The Music Of Joseph Schwantner / Slatkin, Glennie, National SO, et al
Fiive works celebrating the music of American composer Joseph Schwanter (b. 1943), winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and named by Leonard Slatkin as the St. Louis Symphony's Orchestra first composer-in residence.   Slatkin has chosen Schwanter's works to be among his first recordings as  music director of the National Symphony.   This disc includes: (1)"Velocities" featuring Evelyn Glennie ; "Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra" (world premiere recording); and (3) "New Morning for the World: "Daybreak of Freedom" narrated by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ,past president of the National Urban League.