THE TESTAMENT OF FREEDOM

"LADY LIBERTY"....Photo by Kindell Brinay Moore

                                     "THE TESTAMENT OF FREEDOM"
                                               by Randall Thompson

----"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty, at the same time..."
----A patriotic musical, based on the writings of Thomas Jefferson
----Composed for a male glee club at the University of Virginia,
----To celebrate the bicentennial  of Jefferson's birthday
----First performed at the University of Virginia on April 13, 1943
----On April 14, 1945 it was performed by Serge Koussevitsky and
         the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a part of a concert in
         memory of FDR...
----This musical piece was also played on radio and TV during the
          funeral weekend of JFK, as well as for other national events.
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"I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance...
And even should the cloud of barbarism again obscure the science and
liberties of Europe, this country remains to restore light and liberty to them...
The flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of
the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the
contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force
may destroy but cannot disjoin them."

Thomas Jefferson,
Monticello
"Letter to JOHN ADAMS"
September 12' 1821

June 2015,
Approaching the 239th year anniversary
       of American Independence

".Long may our land be bright
     with freedom's holy light..."
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MIL'S PLACE
BY MIL
June 1, 2015