The Four Freedoms – David Evan Thomas
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Composer: David Evan Thomas
Text by: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Instrumentation: SATB chorus and piano
Duration: approx. 4 minutes
Date Written: 2012
Commissioned by: Plymouth Congregational Church in celebration of the "Summer of the First Amendment" embroidery.
Premiere, July 15, 2012, by Maria Jette, Lisa Drew, Dan Dressen, James Bohn and James Lee Bobb Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Text:
This nation has placed its destiny
in the hands and heads and hearts
of its free men and women;
and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God.
in the hands and heads and hearts
of its free men and women;
and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms:
freedom of speech and expression;
freedom of every person to worship God in his own way;
freedom from want—everywhere in the world.
freedom from fear—anywhere in the world.
This is no vision of a distant millennium.
It is attainable in our own time.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt