Orchestra Focus: Civil War & Emancipation Proclamation

Orchestra Focus: Civil War & Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War & Emancipation Proclamation

The significance of the Civil War to America cannot be measured, ending slavery at the cost of being the deadliest war in American history. To mark the upcoming sesquicentennial anniversaries of the Civil War (2011) and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (2013), below is a list of works inspired by these events and an era defined by them.

Orchestral

Lan Adomián
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Baritone, orchestra

Ernst Bacon
Ford's Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865
orchestra

John Alden Carpenter
War Lullaby
orchestra

Richard Danielpour
Three Prayers
Soprano, orchestra

Anthony Davis
Amistad Symphony
orchestra

Herbert Elwell
Lincoln Requiem
Baritone, chorus, orchestra

Morton Gould
Amber Waves — on "America the Beautiful"
orchestra

American Ballads, Settings of American Tunes for Orchestra
orchestra

Jubilo — on "Year of the Jubilo"
orchestra

Lincoln Legend
orchestra

Memorials — on "Taps"
orchestra

A Song of Freedom
orchestra

Roy Harris
Concert Overture — March in Time of war
orchestra

Freedom's Land
Chorus and orchestra

When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Overture
orchestra

Kirke Mecham
Songs of the Slave
Bass Baritone, Soprano; chorus and orchestra

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Freedom-Freedom
Chorus and orchestra

Sergei Prokofiev
Ode to the End of the War
orchestra

Ray Ringwald, arr. Schoenfield
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Chorus and orchestra

John Sacco
Liberty Under God
Chorus and orchestra

William Schuman
A Free Song, Secular Cantata No. 2
Chorus and orchestra

William Grant Still
Afro-American Symphony
orchestra

Jaromir Weinberger
Prelude and Fugue on "Dixie"
orchestra

Chamber Music

Roy Harris
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Mezzo-soprano, piano trio

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