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America Sings: An Oratorio For Mixed Choir, Brass, Percussion, Narrator, William Cates Jr.
America Sings: An Oratorio For Mixed Choir, Brass, Percussion, Narrator, William Cates Jr.
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I wrote this work with the nation's Bicentennial Celebration in mind. I was completed on Dec. 1, 1975. I hope the musicians who perform it will do so with the same attitude of pride in being an American that I feel and that I experienced as I wrote it.
The underlying motive, in the beginning, was to write a "Bicentennial piece" that would be totally different from other works that would be most surely coming out in the '75-'76 Bicentennial year. I chose the vocal medium first because the ability to sing is God's gift to man. It is 'natural' …