Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble

Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble
Stephen Field, Director
presents

Celebrating America’s Freedom

Presentation of the Colors by Boy Scout Troop 255
The Pledge of Allegiance
The Star Spangled Banner
This is America	Dennis Jernigan

In Flanders Field	John Phillip Sousa
He’s Gone Away	arr. Ruth Schram
He is There	Charles Ives
When Johnny Comes Marching Home	Lambert/Wilhousky

Old American Songs	Aaron Copland
At The River
The Little Horses
I Bought Me a Cat

Stars and Stripes Forever	J. Philip Sousa

Selections from Porgy and Bess	George Gershwin
Summertime
My Man’s Gone Now
Bess, You is my Woman Now

An American Hymn	Cecil Effinger
This is My Country	Al Jacobs
You’re a Grand Old Flag	George M. Cohan
God Bless America	Irving Berlin
Battle Hymn of the Republic	Steffe/Wilhousky

~~~~~~~~~~Featured Artists~~~~~~~~~~

Candace McFadden Williams – Organ and Piano

David N. Williams – Bass-Baritone

Elizabeth Albritton – Contralto

Elisabeth MacKay Field -- Soprano

With the Celebrating America’s Freedom concert, Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble was launched into the cultural arts landscape of Southeastern North Carolina, with a standing-room only crowd. As you will see in the other concert information, since this first concert, our performances have included a varied repertoire.

“There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.”

~Archibald MacLeish

National honor is national property of the highest value.

~James Monroe,

first inaugural address, 4 March 1817