Sono Luminus
DSL-92162
Essential Voices USA ~ Judith Clurman (conductor)
Kelli O'Hara (soprano) ~ Ron Raines (baritone)
Celebrating the American Spirit, performed by Essential Voices USA (EVUSA) and conducted by Judith Clurman along with guest artists, Broadway stars Kelli O'Hara and Ron Raines and composer-arranger Larry Hochman, represents an American songbook for the 21st century. The centerpiece of this CD is Sing Out Mr. President, a song cycle of sixteen newly commissioned compositions set to quotations by American presidents from Washington to Obama. Originally performed at the Library of Congress and broadcast on National Public Radio, the cycle showcases the American composers Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Robert Beaser, Jason Robert Brown, Thomas Cabaniss, Jake Heggie, Larry Hochman, Michael Gilbertson, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Andrew Lippa, David Ludwig, Paul Moravec, Nico Muhly, Georgia Stitt, Zachary Wadsworth, and Jesse Wiener. The CD also includes individual new and newly arranged works by composers and writers such as Irving Berlin (It Gets Lonely In the White House & God Bless America), Leonard Bernstein (Take Care of This House), Sheldon Harnick (Reason to Be Thankful), Jennifer Higdon (A Quiet Moment), Larry Hochman (Two Paraphrases on American Anthems & American Dream) and Laurie Hochman (The Pledge of Allegiance & American Dream), David Ludwig (The New Colossus), Stephen Paulus (Hymn for America), Marc Shaiman (A Seed of Grain: Theme from The American President), and John Philip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever).
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1. The Pledge of Allegiance - Laurie Hochman 2. The New Colossus - David Ludwig 3. Reason to be Thankful - Larry Hochman 4. Hymn for America - Stephen Paulus 5. Take Care of this House - Leonard Bernstein Sing Out Mr. President 6. Washington Round - Michael Gilberston 7. John Adams' Prayer - Jake Heggie 8. Opinion Is Power (Jefferson) - Larry Hochman 9. Round (Madison) - Milton Babbitt 10. One Man With Courage Makes A Majority (Jackson) - Nico Muhly 11. The Ballot Is Stronger Than the Bullet (Lincoln) - Jason Robert Brown 12. A Theodore Roosevelt Round - Thomas Cabaniss 13. I Believe in Democracy - Andrew Lippa 14. Admonition of FDR - Samuel Adler 15. Truman - David Ludwig 16. Eisenhower Round - Paul Moravec 17. Freedom's Road (JFK) - Robert Beaser 18. Moral Courage (Reagan) - Jesse Wiener 19. an Ode (Clinton) - Zachary Wadsworth 20. A Simple Oath (Bush) - Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum 21. With Hope and Virtue (Obama) - Georgia Stitt 22. It Gets Lonely in the White House - Irving Berlin 23. The Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa 24. Two Paraphrases on American Anthems - Larry Hochman 25. A Seed of Grain - Theme from The American President - Marc Shaiman 26. A Quiet Moment - Jennifer Higdon 27. American Dream - Larry Hochman & Laurie Hochman 28. God Bless America - Irving Berlin |
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