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Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra: Tribute to Lincoln


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Today we featured the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Randall Swiggum, in a program that paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln. Maestro Swiggum was named the 2008 Illinois Youth Conductor of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras.

Program:

Americans we by Henry Fillmore, arranged for orchestra by Randall Swiggum

Overture to La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi

American Civil War Fantasy by Jerry Bilik

A Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland
Narrated by F. Keith Brown, Judge for the 16th Judicial Circuit of Illinois

Tags: bilik, copland, fillmore, lincoln, march, orchestra, overture, symphony, verdi

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