Thomson: Orchestral Works: Marriner / Los Angeles Chamber O.: Hanson: Symphony No.2: Slatkin / Saint Louis SO

EMI American Classics

Virgil Thomson:
The Plow that Broke the Plains - Suite
Autumn (Concertina for Harp, Strings & Percussion)
The River - Suite

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Neville Marriner, conductor

Howard Hanson:
Symphony No.2 'Romantic'

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Digital Recording: 1986

Virgil Thomson and Howard Hanson were exact contemporaries, both being born in 1896, and both hailing from the mid-west: Thomson from Kansas and Hanson from Nebraska.
While Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and lived there for 15 years, Hanson received his musical education entirely in America, except for a three-year stay at the American Academy in Rome.