Dale Victorine: I Have a Dream - for Orchestra, Speaker & Chorus (1988)

Dale E. Victorine: I Have a Dream - for Orchestra, Speaker, and Chorus (1988). This is a midi version of a work I wrote in 1988. After an orchestral introduction, a speaker does the second half of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech with orchestral accompaniment. For the finale, the chorus begins with the hymn, Free at Last. Then the song, We Shall Overcome enters and blends with Free at Last. That's me doing the speech.
Here are the words of the spiritual, "Free At Last":

Free at last, free at last.
Thank God almighty, we're free at last. (repeat)
Surely been 'buked and surely scorned.
Thank God almighty, we're free at last.
But still our souls are a heaven born.
Thank God Almighty, we're free at last.
Free at last...
If you don't know that we've been redeemed,
Thank God almighty, we're free at last.
Just follow us down to Jordan's stream.
Thank God almighty, we're free at last.
Free at last, free at last.
Thank God almighty, we're free at last...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Martin
• Luther
• King
• Dale
• Victorine
• Have
• Dream
• Free
• Last
• Civil
• Rights
• Speech
• March
• Washington
• Orchestra
• Orchestral
• America
• American
• Composer
• Chorus
• Choral
• We
• Shall
• Overcome
• MLK
• 1963
• Symphony

[rmills764]

Thank you, so very much. I had asked you to create this little piece for another reason, and though it did not happen as I originally wanted it to, it still serves the spirit of why you were chosen to compose this very imporatnat musical tribute. It moves the heart and soul, and expresses the passion for human rights and dignity Dr King lived for.