Essential Voices USA - Celebrating the American Spirit - Music & Performance - CD

Sono Luminus proudly presents Celebrating the American Spirit, performed by Essential Voices USA and directed by Judith Clurman, which reconfigures musical expressions of nationhood. EVUSA comes together with guest soloists and instrumentalists, including singers Kelli O'Hara and Ron Raines, and composer arranger Larry Hochman. There is even a new lyric by Sheldon Harnick, the famed lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof. From beginning to end, EVUSA delivers imaginatively conceived performances that articulate new visions of community and civic responsibility in the 21st century. At the core of the CD is 'Sing Out Mr. President', a series of sixteen newly commissioned works set to quotations by U.S. presidents stretching from George Washington to Barack Obama. Judith Clurman initiated this inventive project in response to 9/11, after she conducted the Juilliard Choral Union in a wrenching memorial concert at a firehouse in New York City.

Sono Luminus proudly presents Celebrating the American Spirit, performed by Essential Voices USA and directed by Judith Clurman, which reconfigures musical expressions of nationhood. EVUSA comes together with guest soloists and instrumentalists, including singers Kelli O'Hara and Ron Raines, and composer arranger Larry Hochman. There is even a new lyric by Sheldon Harnick, the famed lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof. From beginning to end, EVUSA delivers imaginatively conceived performances that articulate new visions of community and civic responsibility in the 21st century. At the core of the CD is 'Sing Out Mr. President', a series of sixteen newly commissioned works set to quotations by U.S. presidents stretching from George Washington to Barack Obama. Judith Clurman initiated this inventive project in response to 9/11, after she conducted the Juilliard Choral Union in a wrenching memorial concert at a firehouse in New York City.

Performer	Essential Voices USA
Music genre	Classical
Media format	CD
Original release date	2012
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	The Pledge of Allegiance, Hymn for America, Washington Round, The Ballot Is Stronger Than the Bullet (Lincoln), Moral, Courage (Reagan), It Gets Lonely in the White House, A Quiet Moment, A Seed of Grain:, Theme from 'The American President', God Bless America
Record label	Sono Luminus
Composer	Larry Hochman/Laurie Hochman, Nico Muhly, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Paulus, Robert Beaser, Milton Babbitt, John Philip Sousa, David Ludwig, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Laurie Hochman, Michael Gilbertson, Thomas Cabaniss, Andrew Lippa, Jesse Wiener, Zachary Wadsworth, Larry Hochman, Irving Berlin, Georgia Stitt, Marc Shaiman, Jason Brown, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, Samuel Adler, Paul Moravec
Songwriter	Sheldon Harnick
Track name	The Pledge of Allegiance, Hymn for America, Washington Round, The Ballot Is Stronger Than the Bullet (Lincoln), Moral Courage (Reagan), It Gets Lonely in the White House, A Quiet Moment, A Seed of Grain: Theme from 'The American President', God Bless America, Two Paraphrases on American Anthems, American Dream, The New Colossus, Take Care of This House, Reason to Be Thankful, Sing Out Mr. President
Digital audio file format	CD
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N