Be Glad Then, America! | Australian Eloquence ELQ4822884

Be Glad Then, America!

Label: Australian Eloquence

Cat No: ELQ4822884

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 9th December 2016

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About

To celebrate America’s bicentennial, the National Symphony of Washington DC commissioned Robert Russell Bennett to write a work, and he responded with The Fun and Faith of William Billings.

It appeared on the official souvenir LP recording of the JFK Center for Performing Arts. The LP – and this CD, the first appearance on Decca and mastered from the original tapes – also includes Billings’s own Hymns, as well as William Schuman’s New England Triptych is subtitled ‘Three pieces for orchestra after William Billings’. The CD includes the original LP liner notes and complete sung texts.

Recorded 23–26 & 30 April 1975, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.

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