DESCRIPTION:
The text of this music by David Nelson Miller is adapted from the final sentence of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address.
This premiere performance by the Pacific Youth Choir and Pacific University Chamber Singers and Pianists Janet Coleman and Michael Barnes took place at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon on February 24th, 2013.

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Composer contact: davidnelsonmiller@gmail.com

Original text: The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature.