Chamber Orchestra with
Piano Solo
SKU:
IG.OMW228-S
Composed
by Daniel Baldwin. Score.
Imagine Music Publishing
#OMW228-S. Published by
Imagine Music Publishing
(IG.OMW228-S).
8.5 x
11 inches.
America,
the Land of Liberty
celebrates immigration,
freedom, and liberty in
America.
Verses
from the poem on the
pedestal of the Statue of
Liberty, “Give me
your tired, your
poor… are set to
music and then combined
with My Country
‘Tis of Thee and
Home on the Range. This
piece of music weaves in
a fresh new setting of
the timeless poetry of
Emma Lazarus along with
patriotic music and a
classic folk song, giving
a sense of the
contemporary and
traditional importance of
American
immigration.
â€
œGive me your tired,
your poor,
Your
huddled masses yearning
to breathe free,
The
wretched refuse of your
teeming shore.
Send
these, the homeless,
tempest-tost to me,
I
lift my lamp beside the
golden door!
-
From “The New
Colossus by Emma
Lazarus.