4-Aug-64
for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra
by Steven Stucky
Choir - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Goodman (Mezzo soprano), Johnson (baritone), McNamara (tenor), Mrs. Chaney (soprano), Piano, alto voice, bass voice, choir:, soprano voice, tenor voice

SKU: PR.441410240

For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra. Composed by Steven Stucky. This edition: Vocal score. Libretto by Gene Scheer. Laquita Mitchell/Soprano, Kelley O?Connor/Mezzo-soprano, Vale Rideout/Tenor, Robert Orth/Baritone, Dallas Symphony Chorus (David Davidson, Director); Dallas Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jap van Zweden. Contemporary. Vocal Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2008. 132 pages. Duration 1 hour, 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #441-41024. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.441410240).

UPC: 680160589128. Libretto by Gene Scheer.

August 4, 1964 was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony for the 2008 celebration of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s centennial year. The 75-minute oratorio focuses on two events that came to a head on August 4, 1964, events that defined LBJ’s presidency: the discovery of the bodies of three slain civil rights workers in Mississippi, and the bombing of North Vietnam, which accelerated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. Gene Scheer’s thoroughly-researched libretto includes actual transcripts of White House phone conversations and government documents, as well as letters from the mothers of the slain civil rights workers.