What Do You Think I Fought For at Omaha Beach?
Melissa Dunphy
About this work:
A moving choral setting of excerpts of public testimony given before the Maine Senate by WWII veteran Phillip Spooner in a hearing to discuss the Marriage Equality Bill on April 22, 2009. Nearly 4,000 people attended the hearing, with marriage equality supporters out-numbering the opposition 4 to 1. On November 2, 2009, Maine voters repealed the bill that allowed same-sex couples the right to marry.
Year composed: 2016
Duration: 00:07:00
Ensemble type: Chorus, with or without Solo Voices:Chorus, Unaccompanied
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Instrumentation notes: SATB or TTBB