America the Beautiful for Orchestra

NYO-USA performs America the Beautiful, the final encore of the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut on July 22, 2014, under the direction of David Robertson. Watch additional highlights from this concert at: http://bit.ly/1nCz8oF

America the Beautiful's lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music was composed by Samuel A. Ward. This arrangement, by Philip Rothman, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 NYO-USA.

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Each summer, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute brings together the brightest young musicians from across the country (ages 16-19) to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA). In 2014, following a two-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians, these remarkable teenagers were joined by conductor David Robertson and violinist Gil Shaham for an eight-city coast-to-coast US tour. To learn more about NYO-USA, visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/nyousa.

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Video
Director: Habib Azar
Associate Director: Jay Millard
Stage Manager: Carole Shure
Technical Director: James Sapione
Score Reader: Nicholas DeMaison
Cameras: Matt Bockelman, Hiram Becker, and Andrew Trost
Video Engineer: Steve Robinson

Audio
Courtesy of WQXR
Listen to the full broadcast archived on the WQXR website at http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/national...

Music
"America the Beautiful"
Composed by Samuel A. Ward, with lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates
Arranged by Philip Rothman