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  • Clinton to Speak at Symphony Performance

    02/11/2003 1:34:28 PM PST · by GeneD · 14 replies · 215+ views
    AP via Lycos.com ^ | 02/11/2003
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton will debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra on the March 25 program "Let Freedom Ring," a celebration of the American spirit that pays tribute to the seven Columbia astronauts. Clinton will narrate Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait," which includes excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln, and will narrate "Let Freedom Ring," Alexander Miller's symphonic setting of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The orchestra will perform Gustav Holst's "Jupiter," the fourth movement of Holst's seven-movement suite "The Planets," to honor the astronauts who died when the space...