Jaap van Zweden - August 4 1964 [New CD]

Description: Jaap van Zweden - August 4 1964 [New CD] Artist: Jaap van Zweden Title: August 4 1964 Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2012 Label: Dso Live UPC: 844667029048 Genre: Classical Album Tracks1. The Saddest Moment2. Historians3. Oval Office I4. I Wish to Be a Part of That Fight5. The Secret Heart of America6. Oval Office II7. Elegy8. Letter from Mississippi9. Oval Office III10. August Fourth11. Had We Known12. What Is Precious Is Never to Forget A world premiere recording of Stucky's August 4, 1964, a "secular oratorio" commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to honor the 100th Anniversary of LBJ's birth. The work centers on a single day in the Johnson Presidency when President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara decided to escalate the Vietnam conflict, and when the bodies of 3 slain civil rights workers were discovered in Mississippi. The libretto by Gene Scheer (Jake Heggie's Moby Dick; Tobias Picker's An American Tragedy) juxtaposes White House telephone tapes, letters from the slain civil rights workers and their mothers, speeches by President Johnson, and other contemporary sources. Stucky's music heightens the gripping narrative, which pulses with contemporary relevance.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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