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We Hold These Truths
A Patriotic Tribute for Narrator and Band
Milford, Gene
We Hold These Truths was composed for the Karl King Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Jerrold Jimmerson, conductor. The narration includes excerpts from the United States Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the US Constitution, … Read More
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We Hold These Truths was composed for the Karl King Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Jerrold Jimmerson, conductor. The narration includes excerpts from the United States Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the US Constitution, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and concludes with the first verse of James Russell Lowell's hymn "Once to Every Man and Nation."
Lowell (1815 1891), American poet and essayist, wrote this poem in 1845 as part of a larger work "The Present Criss" in protest of the Mexican American War and supporting the growing abolitionist movement.
The text is usually set to the tune "Ebenezer" (1890) by the Welsh composer Thomas John Williams (1869 1944). It is this melody that forms the basis of this work.