PBS announced this week that Johnny Gandelsman, Rhiannon Giddens, Jennifer Kreisberg, David Cieri, Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Evans are contributing music to the upcoming documentary series The American Revolution. The show directed and produced by Ken Burns (Brooklyn Bridge, The Vietnam War, The Statue of Liberty), Sarah Botstein (The U.S. and the Holocaust) & David Schmidt, written by long-time collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward and examines how America’s creation turned the world upside-down. The 6-parter is narrated by Peter Coyote and includes the first-person voices of nearly 200 individual historic figures, read by a cast of actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Josh Brolin, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Alden Ehrenreich, Craig Ferguson, Morgan Freeman, Paul Giamatti, Domhnall Gleeson, Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Lucas Hedges, Josh Hutcherson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Joel Kinnaman, Tracy Letts, Damian Lewis, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, David Oyelowo, Mandy Patinkin, Wendell Pierce, Liev Schreiber, Chaske Spencer, Dan Stevens, Meryl Streep, among others.
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‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ Soundtrack Album Announced
In a Circle Records will release a soundtrack album for the PBS documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust. The album features original music created for the film by artists such as Kinan Azmeh, Shanir Blumenkranz, Dan Brantigan, Mathias Kunzli, Jason Moran, Dana Lyn, Michael Nicholas, Dave Nelson, Gyan Riley, Kyle Sanna and Carmen Staaf, as well as music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Achron, Ernest Bloch, Carla Kihlstedt, Osvaldo Golijov, Vartaped Komitas and Maurice Ravel. The soundtrack, which is produced by Johnny Gandelsman, will be released digitally and physically on September 23. Click here to order the digital version and visit Amazon to order the CD version.