Episode 359: Feast and Frenzy

Back in 1943, in the midst of World War 2, Norman Rockwell painted the quintessential thanksgiving illustration of a family Thanksgiving Dinner. It appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. Almost everyone has seen it. It has a name, "Freedom from Want".

​Here's is a link to it in case you’d like to see it again. The painting wasn’t popular in Europe where the shortages and horrors of war were most severe, but there is a good story on the linked website. 

Harvest Hymn: Percy Grainger
  North Texas Wind Symphony,
  Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Thanksgiving Hymn: William Billings
  Eastern Wind Symphony, William Silvester
Give Us This Day - Short Symphony For Wind Ensemble: David Maslanka
  Eastern Wind Symphony, Todd Nichols
Turkey Trot from Divertimento: Leonard Bernstein,
  University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble,
  Scott Weiss
Thanksgiving Meditation: Timothy Mahr
  St. Olaf Band, Timothy Mahr
Frenzy: Andrew Boysen, Jr.
  University of Texas at El Paso Wind Symphony,
  Ron Hufstader
Manhattan Pictures: Jan Van Der Roost
  Rutgers Wind Ensemble, William Berz