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Table of Contents:

• Disc one. Overture (1:32)
• Joe Lieberman reads John F. Kennedy (1:23)
• Ask not / Kennedy (5:40)
• Deepak Chopra reads Jawaharlal Nehru (1:45)
• Spoken at midnight / Nehru (5:38)
• William vanden Heuvel reads Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1:35)
• The four freedoms / Roosevelt (8:23)
• Douglas Brinkley reads Ronald Reagan (1:21)
• Tear down this wall / Reagan (4:03)
• David Miliband reads Winston Churchill (1:47)
• This deliverance / Churchill (4:57)
• Glenn Close reads Aung San Suu Kyi (1:46)
• Water in cupped hands / Suu Kyi (4:16)
• Sam Waterston reads Lyndon B. Johnson (1:50)
• The American promise / Johnson (6:11)
• Andrew Young reads Nelson Mandela (1:36)
• The time for the healing of the wounds / Mandela (5:17)
• Disc two: music only. Overture (1:32)
• Ask not (5:40)

• Spoken at midnight (5:38)
• The four freedoms (8:23)
• Tear down this wall (4:03)
• This deliverance (4:57)
• Water in cupped hands (4:16)
• The American promise (6:11)
• The time for the healing of the wounds (5:17).

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Author/Creator:

Nash, Ted, 1959- , composer, arranger of music, instrumentalist, conductor

Contributors:

Temperley, Joe , instrumentalist

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- , instrumentalist

Brinkley, Douglas , speaker

Chopra, Deepak , speaker

Close, Glenn, 1947- , speaker

Young, Andrew, 1932- , speaker

Lieberman, Joseph I. , speaker

Miliband, David , speaker

Vanden Heuvel, William J. (William Jacobus), 1930- , speaker

Waterston, Sam , speaker

Ted Nash Big Band , instrumentalist, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Presidential suite: eight variations on freedom [by Nash, T.]

Subjects:

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Speeches (Selections)

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 — Speeches (Selections)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 — Speeches (Selections)

Reagan, Ronald — Speeches (Selections)

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 — Speeches (Selections)

Aung San Suu Kyi — Speeches (Selections)

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 — Speeches (Selections)

Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 — Speeches (Selections)

Suites (Jazz ensemble)

Jazz — 2011-2020

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964

Reagan, Ronald

Aung San Suu Kyi

Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013

Speeches (Churchill, Winston)

Speeches (Roosevelt, Franklin D.)

2011-2020

Jazz

Genres:

Jazz

Suites

Speeches

Performers:

Ted Nash Big Band ; Ted Nash, conductor, arranger, alto and soprano sax ; with guest musicians (Wynton Marsalis, Joe Temperley) and guest readers (Douglas Brinkley, Deepak Chopra, Glenn Close, Andrew Young, Joe Lieberman, David Miliband, William vanden Heuvel, Sam Waterston).

Performance Medium:

1 ensemble: big band
1 performer and 1 ensemble: speaker

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Presidential suite was composed and arranged by Ted Nash.
Presidential Suite recorded 2014 September 14 Varis Leichtmann Studio, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York.
Additional recording made at various dates.
Program notes in English (36 pages ; black and white portraits and illustrations) by Douglas Brinkley and Kabir Sehgal inserted in container.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 155,138- 155,139

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 181212002034
Publisher Number, Motéma: MTA-CD-203

OCLC Numbers:

952395596