Episode 438: A Self-Evident Truth

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -Preamble, United States Declaration of Independence

This inspirational passage, perhaps one of the best-known sentences in the English language, came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.

​This episode of Wind & Rhythm celebrates its potency and ideals with music, equally as inspired.

​Fanfare for Freedom
  Morton Gould
  UNLV Wind Orchestra, Thomas Leslie
American Hymn
  William Schuman
  Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp
Overture & March, "1776"
  Charles Ives
  US Marine Band, Colonel Timothy Foley
American Overture for Band
  Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
  US Army Field Band, Colonel Finley R. Hamilton
Celebration Overture
  Paul Creston
  US Air Force Band, Colonel Lowell Graham
American Faces
  David Holsinger
  US Navy Band, Commander Ralph Gambone
Variations on an American Cavalry Song
  Donald Grantham
  North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon