"Of Thee I Sing" was composed to mark the 25th anniversary of the April 19 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. At first, Leshnoff’s music depicts the fear and confusion
Vaughan Williams’ work for chorus and orchestra. Using the words of the poem “Darest thou now, O soul” from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Vaughan Williams composed Toward the