"A history of the popular song 'My Old Kentucky Home' and its impact on American culture"--

Berlin-based violinist Daniel Hope's latest album takes a deep dive into the rich repertoire of American music, exploring its roots and distinctive qualities. We know a piece is from America the moment we hear it, says Hope. But what makes music sound American? Daniel Hope / America provides some answers, presenting works by composers as diverse as Leonard Bernstein, Sam Cooke, Aaron Copland, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Florence Price, Samuel...

The transcriptions and concert pieces collected here are all big, beautiful, examples of nostalgic American music. But this is timeless music too, and its romanticism, spirit of adventure, playfulness, and purity tap into collective memory, underlying, ongoing, deeply American nostalgia for what all know as, simply, some other time.