Sing Out Mr. President has been published in The Judith Clurman Choral Series under the auspices of G. Schirmer and distributed by Hal Leonard – #50490621v.
Conductor and music editor Judith Clurman has said: “It is my hope that these works will inspire the public, teachers, and students through the stirring words of these presidents and these sixteen remarkable musical settings. Perhaps studying and performing these pieces could help bring an era of American history to life through collaboration between American history teachers and music teachers.”
The work showcases the music of both well-known and emerging American composers in a broad spectrum of musical styles. The composers represent young students to elder musical statesmen, and from our finest classical composers to our most renowned theater and popular composers. The musical styles vary from rounds and canons to duets. The composers represented are Samuel Adler (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), Milton Babbitt (James Madison), Robert Beaser (John Fitzgerald Kennedy), Jason Robert Brown (Abraham Lincoln), Thomas Cabaniss (Theodore Roosevelt), Michael Gilbertson (George Washington), Jake Heggie (John Adams), Larry Hochman (Thomas Jefferson), Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (George W. Bush), Andrew Lippa (Woodrow Wilson), David Ludwig (Harry S. Truman), Paul Moravec (Dwight David Eisenhower), Nico Muhly (Andrew Jackson), Georgia Stitt (Barack Obama), Zachary Wadsworth (William Jefferson Clinton), and Jesse Wiener (Ronald Reagan)
Sing Out Mr. President has been performed at the Library of Congress and on National Public Radio. The Obama piece was featured on National Public Radio for President Obama’s 2013 inauguration.
Along with music John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Steve Stucky, Sing Out Mr.President has been listed as one of the five top works about American Presidents by Public Radio. It has been recorded on Celebrating the American Spirit on the Sono Luminus Label (DSL-92162).
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