Celebrating the American Spirit

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Label
Sono Luminus
Release Date
October 30, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ADLER MUHLY BABBITT HEGGIE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Essential Voices Usa
    • PERFORMER
      O'Hara, Raines, Clurman
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2012
    • UPC
      053479216229
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DSL-92162
    • LABEL
      Sono Luminus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. The Pledge of Allegiance (arr. L. Hochman)

      Composer: Laurie Hochman

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    2. The New Colossus

      Composer: David Serkin Ludwig

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    3. Reason to Be Thankful

      Composer: Larry Hochman

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    4. Hymn for America

      Composer: Stephen Paulus

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    5. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Act I: Take Care of this House

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Performer: Kelli O'Hara

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    6. Washington Round

      Composer: Michael Gilbertson

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    7. John Adam's Prayer

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    8. Opinion is Power

      Composer: Larry Hochman

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    9. Round

      Composer: Milton Babbitt

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    10. One man with Courage makes A Majority

      Composer: Nico Muhly

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    11. The Ballot is stronger than the Bullet

      Composer: Jason Brown

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    12. A Theodore Roosevelt Round

      Composer: Thomas Cabaniss

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    13. I Believe in Democracy

      Composer: Andrew Lippa

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    14. Admonition of FDR

      Composer: Samuel Adler

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    15. Truman

      Composer: David Serkin Ludwig

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    16. Eisenhower Round

      Composer: Paul Moravec

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    17. Freedom's Road

      Composer: Robert Beaser

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    18. Moral Courage

      Composer: Jesse Wiener

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    19. An Ode

      Composer: Zachary Wadsworth

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    20. A Simple Oath

      Composer: Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    21. With Hope and Virtue

      Composer: Georgia Stitt

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    22. It Gets Lonely in White House (arr. B. Test)

      Composer: Irving Berlin

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Performer: Ron Raines

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    23. The Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. B. Test)

      Composer: John Philip Sousa

    24. 2 Paraphrases on American Anthems

      Composer: Larry Hochman

    25. A Seed of Grain: Theme from The American President (arr. L. Hochman)

      Composer: Marc Shaiman, Ramsey McClean

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    26. A Quiet Moment

      Composer: Jennifer Higdon

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    27. American Dream

      Composer: Larry Hochman, Laurie Hochman

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Conductor: Judith Clurman

    28. God Bless America (arr. L. Hochman)

      Composer: Irving Berlin

      Ensemble: Essential Voices USA

      Performer: Kelli O'Hara

      Conductor: Judith Clurman


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.