4-Aug-64
by Steven Stucky
Orchestra - Sheet Music

Item Number: 19248462
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Ensembles
Orchestra
Genres
20th Century
Composers
Steven Stucky
Publishers
Theodore Presser Company
Formats
Set of Parts
Score and Parts
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community
Orchestra

SKU: PR.446412420

Composed by Steven Stucky. Score and parts. With Standard notation. Duration 1 hour, 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #446-41242. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.446412420).

UPC: 680160591206. 8.5 x 11 inches.

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.