This weekend, our Thanksgiving Gratitude Project continues with an hour of listener picks. We all say thanks for choral music with works by Faure, Vivaldi, Tallis and Handel.

On today's show, an hour of choral music from the rich American tradition, including works by Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber.

This week, Midge Woolsey presents new choral music, including the latest from Eric Whitacre. The current “rock star” of the choral world, Whitacre’s new album Light and Gold includes lush settings of secular and sacred verse.

This week we present settings of the Te Deum from the 16th to the 21st century. Performers include crack ensembles like Stile Antico, the English Baroque Soloists and Voices of Ascension.