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Part 22-LBCAA 30 year history
The Civil War
ended May 8, 1865, MusicUNTOLD presented May 24, 2015 FREEDOM CONCERT to celebrate 150th anniversary of end of
Civil War and passage of 13th Amendment ending US slavery at Hall of
Liberty-Hollywood Forest Lawn, Los Angeles, Ca. The concert was hosted by
Dennis Bartel, KUSC Classical Radio and included the West C,oast premiere of arias from operas on Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,
Duke Ellington's, The Single Petal Of A Rose and the world’s only video
recording of Roy Harris’ Bicentennial Symphony endorsed by the Abraham Lincoln
Bicentennial Commission. The
Bicentennial Symphony aka 14th Symphony is the strongest unsweetened
musical statement on U.S. History, slavery, and race relations ever made by an
American composer. The work was written for orchestra with large chorus. The
chorus carries the larger part of the work with passages from the Preamble to
the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and the Emancipation Proclamation as
well as original passages.
Please see page
1 (cover) of program- Air National Guard Band of the West Coast ‘Brass
Ensemble’ not pictured. See program page 2, program page 3, and program page 4
(back cover).
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