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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
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