For narrator, baritone solo, chorus, organ, brass quartet, piano, harp, and timpani. Text from several sources, including a poem by Wallace Bruce, a Mohawk prayer, a prayer by George Washington, three songs from a 1767 Dutch hymnbook, and excerpts from speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sung in English. Recorded live in performance at the Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Oct. 23, 1983
This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.