tracks 6 to 12 baritone vocals David Meyers
chorus Eastman School Of Music Chorus
orchestra Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
HANSON Symphony No. 4 (1943, won Pulitzer Prize)
Recorded 11-13 May 1953
First issued on Mercury MG 40004

LOEFFLER Memories of my Childhood (Life in a Russian Village) (1925)
Recorded 29 October 1954
First issued on Mercury MG 40012

HANSON Songs from 'Drum Taps'* (1935)
To poems of Walt Whitman
Recorded 3 May 1952
First issued as Mercury MG 40000

RANDALL THOMPSON The Testament of Freedom* (1943)
A setting of Four Passages from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Recorded 3 May 1952
First issued as Mercury MG 40000

*David Meyers, baritone
*Eastman School of Music Chorus
Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Howard Hanson, conductor