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Behold This Man! George Washington

Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2, 4-3-3-1, timp, 3 perc, pf, narr, sty
Text: Joan Vail Thorne
Duration: 13 minutes

"With a moving text by Joan Vail Thorne, Behold This Man is a tribute
to Washington's character and leadership on the 200th Anniversary of his death
--Office of the Director, Mount Vernon

"On eo fht efirst events at Sunday's 15th annual Kennedy Center Open House Arts
Festival...was the National Symphony Orchestra's concert of American music...Short
works by Berstein...Barber...and Gershwin...framed a world premiere: Behold This Man!
George Washington! with music by Stephen Paulus and text by Joan Vail Thorne...
Paulus and Thorne took Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait as a ...model...
The 13-minute work, in one movement, is a ...revisitingof New Deal
art...patriotic emphasis...[and] artistic creativity."
--Piere Ruhe, The Washington Post

Publisher: Paulus Publications
Recordings: No recordings available at this time

Commissioned by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association through the generosity
of Mr. Frederick L. Gragan and Mr. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.
Sponsored by The Society of the Cinncinnatai

World Premiere: National Symphony Orchestra, September 12, 1999
Narrator: Jay O. Sanders
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin