While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare for Obama) – Steve Heitzeg

Composer: Steve Heitzeg

Text: Barack Obama (While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare for the Obamas) also contains quotes from Michelle Obama

Instrumentation: narrator, string quintet and percussion (chimes, 2 Hula stones, sea glass shaker, suspended cymbal (large) and Tam-tam)

Note: This will include a copy of the Full Score for both versions of the work.

Duration: Approx. 4'30"

Date Written: 2009 (and 2018)

First performance(s):

WHILE WE BREATHE, WE HOPE (Fanfare for Obama) – Lou Bellamy, narrator, Young-Nam Kim, violin, Arianna Kim, violin, Sally Chisholm, viola, James Jacobsen, cello, David Williamson, bass, Timothy Lovelace, piano, Bojan Hoover, percussion
February 15, 2009, First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, MN

WHILE WE BREATHE, WE HOPE (Fanfare for the Obamas)

Greta Oglesby, narrator, Harry Waters Jr, narrator, Wayzata Symphony Orchestra, Marlene Pauley, Music Director

November 18, 2018, Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, MN

Commissioned: Young-Nam Kim for the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota

Additional Information: N/A