We Hold These Truths
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General Info
Year: 1997
Duration: c. 7:45
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Curnow Music Press through Hal Leonard
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $59.00 | Score Only (print) - $12.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Timpani
Percussion I-II-III
(percussion detail desired)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Chosen for this piece are prominent freedom songs of the civil rights movement; for, when it was most needed, music brought inspiration and hope to the struggle. We Hold These Truths pays tribute to the leaders and participants of the civil rights movement, especially the children and young adults.
- Program Note from publisher
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: University of Iowa Symphony Band
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Currituck Sound (2007)
- Appomattox (2004)
- Architect of Victory (1994)
- Atlantic Avenue (1996)
- Battle Hymn 2000 (2000)
- Black Granite (1996)
- Black Granite (adapt. Patterson) (1996/2020?)
- Christmas Latina (2004)
- Colonial Collage, A (2001)
- Diamond Prelude (1999)
- Fanfare Britannica (2001)
- Fantasia on a 13th Century Carol (2006)
- First Light on the Chesapeake
- Harbor Park Holiday
- Hero for Today (as arranger)
- Ice Breaker (2009)
- Land of Louisa
- Mayan Sports Festival (2003)
- Patriotic Salute, A (2001)
- Persis (2000)
- Pride of the Fleet (2003)
- Guardians of Peace (1999)
- Second Dawning, The (1996)
- Sing We Liberty (2006)
- The Sound of Silence (as arranger) (1964/2018)
- Splashes of Gold
- Swords Against the Sea (2001)
- The Virginians (1994)
- We Hold These Truths (1997)
- With Full Honors (1994)