The American Spirit: Roots and Transformations

Disc 1
1: Prologue
2: Words of Helen Cohen, Emigrated from Poland in 1920, Read By Blair Brown
3: Interlude 1
4: Words of James Apanomith, Emigrated from Greece in 1911, Read By Louis Zorich
5: Interlude 2
6: Words of Lillian Galleta, Emigrated from Italy in 1928, Read By Olympia Dukakis
7: Interlude 3
8: Words of Lazarus Salamon, Emigrated from Hungary in 1920, Read By Eli Wallach
9: Interlude 4
10: Words of Helen Rosenthal, Emigrated from Belgium in 1940, Read By Bebe Neuwirth
11: Interlude 5
12: Words of Manny Steen, Emigrated from Ireland in 1925, Read By Barry Bostwick
13: Interlude 6
14: Words of Katherine Beychook, Emigrated from Russia in 1910, Read By Anne Jackson
15: Epilogue: 'The New Colossus' (Emma Lazarus, 1883), Read By All Actors

Disc 2
1: Lincoln, the Great Commoner
2: A Lincoln Address, Op. 124
3: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
4: Preamble
5: Walt Whitman and the Dying Soldier
6: Passing Troops
7: The Telegraph Fugue
8: Moonlight On the Savannah
9: The Theatre
10: The River Queen
11: Premonitions
12: Pennsylvania Avenue, April 9, 1865
13: Good Friday, 1865
14: The Long Rain
15: Conclusion

Disc 3
1: Lincoln Legend
2: Evocation
3: Choral Scene
4: March
5: Declaration
6: Epilogue
7: Variations On an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty, Op. 20
8: Lincoln Portrait

Disc 4
1: Prelude
2: Pastorale (Grass)
3: Cattle
4: The Homesteader
5: Warning
6: War and the Tractor
7: Speculation (Blues)
8: Drought
9: Wind and Dust
10: Devastation
11: Prelude
12: First Forest
13: A Big River
14: Cotton Pickers
15: Ruins
16: Logging
17: Coal
18: Floods
19: Requiem
20: Tenancy
21: Finale

Disc 5
1: A Prayer for the World - The Over Soul Sends to Us
2: A Prayer for the World
3: For We Have Walked the Streets of Babylon, Forty Thousand Strong
4: In Sacrifice
5: For the Future
6: Seeds of the World
7: Songs from Heaven Falling
8: Like Luminous Rain Upon the Daughters of Isis
9: Giving Their Children the Will to Continue
10: Singing a Prayer for the Souls of the World

Composer: Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Ernst Bacon, Hannibal Lokumbe, Paul Turok, Virgil Thomson, Vincent Persichetti, Roy Harris, Peter Boyer, Morton Gould, George Frederick McKay

Conductor: Angel Gil-Ordonez, Thomas Wilkins, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Boyer

Number of Discs: 5

Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra

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