[Zanaida Robles]
Note: the performance was out door at MLK Jr. Park in Long Beach, Ca.
with a large banner above the stage. From time to time the wind came up
and the unidentified noise is the banner flapping in the wind.
The first movement is a setting of the Preamble of the Constitution. The second movement is an exposition of the bitter disagreement about slavery between the North and the South. The third movement is a statement in music about the ferocity of the Civil War, brother against brother. The fourth movement is a musical setting of Abraham Lincoln’s “Freedom Proclamation”. The fifth movement is a musical setting of new attitudes of free black people. The coda is a setting of portions of the Preamble of the Constitution proclaiming freedom “for all of us”.
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