Preamble to the Constitution

This is a workshop from the new opera/musical, RED WHITE & BLUE with Contemporary Opera Los Angeles on September 6, 2007, directed by Tom Villano.

RED WHITE & BLUE is a "Play within a Play" and has 3 acts: Act I: "The Audition." Act II: "The Rehearsal" Act III: "The Performance".




In this clip from Act II, we see "Miriam Golden" (Lisa Boyd) and "Edith Evans" (Edith Evanski) rehearsing "The Preamble to the Constitution".

Music by Susan Asbjornson words by Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Rufus King, James Madison, and Gouverneur Morris. Orchestra conducted and music orchestrated by Pancho Burgos, Bill Protzmann on piano. www.ContemporaryOpera.com

"We, the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

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