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By Tom Huizenga

Published June 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM EDT

No "turkeys" on this broadly curated Thanksgiving playlist of homegrown music.

Updated November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM EST

Updated Nov. 6, 2025: As America gears up for Thanksgiving, try this wide ranging feast of homegrown music – from classics by Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin to deeper cuts by Jessie Montgomery, Art Tatum, David Lang, Connie Converse, John Cage and Erroll Garner.

Need a deep discovery experience? Try 1,000 years of music in this playlist from NPR Classical's Tom Huizenga, which explores everything from new releases to old favorites, and classics from the dawn of the recording era. Our mantra: Bach, Beethoven, before and beyond.

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Tom Huizenga

Tom Huizenga is a producer for NPR Music. He contributes a wide range of stories about classical music to NPR's news programs and is the classical music reviewer for All Things Considered. He appears regularly on NPR Music podcasts and founded NPR's classical music blog Deceptive Cadence in 2010.

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