Special: "100 Years of America's Popular Music" - from ragtime rhythms and St. Louis blues to big-band brassiness and Tin Pan Alley pop - is saluted by George Burns, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Henry Mancini, Paul Simon, Gregory Hines, Sarah Vaughan and the New American Orchestra, conducted by Jack Elliott.
The program is slated to feature the orchestra's renditions of "Rhapsody in Blue," "Let's Dance," "Celebration" and a medley from "Oklahoma!" as well as ensemble performances of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Say It with Music," "God Bless America," "Sonny Boy," "Who" and tunes from "Showboat."
