Prelude Bugle Calls: Reveille Hymn #1: Recessional Part One - Family Portrait Recitative: John's Birth Duet: Lullaby For John Recitative: John's Destiny - "My Attention Is At Present Take Up..." Duet: John Grows Up Aria: If Part Two - The Gathering Storm Recitative: August 4, 1914 Scena: At A Recruiting Rally - For All We Have And Are - 1914 Recitative: John's Commission Recitative: "...There Is Nothing Else To Do." Lament #1: "The Young Men Of The World..." Aria (Chaconne) + Recitative: Carrie's Farewell - Son March #1: The Call Part Three - The Battle Of Loos Aria With Chorus: John Kipling's Final Letter: "Just A Hurried Line..." Soldiers Song #1: Bombed Last Night Aria With Chorus: Secret Music Soldiers Song #2: Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty Soldiers Song #3: Just Before The Battle, Mother Chorale #1: Soldier's Dream - "I Dreamed Kind Jesus Fouled The Big Gun Gears..." Scena For Chorus + Tenor: The Attack (Over The Top) John's Death Chorale #2: "The Dead Men Lay On The Shell-scarred Plain..." Interlude: "I Knew A Simple Soldier Boy..." Soldiers' Song #4: The Old Barbed Wire Chorus With Recitative - "They Shall Not Return To Us..." Choral Recitative: The Telegram Reprise: For All We Have And Are Part Four - Lost & Found The Search For John Begins (1915) Carol And Recitative: A Nativity - "Is It Well With The Child?" The Search For John Continues (1916) Chorale #3: Advent, 1916 - "I Dreamt Last Night Christ Came To Earth Again..." Recitative With Chorus: The Search For John Concludes (1917) Soliloquy: The Question Duet: Perhaps Part Five - Armistice & Aftermath Recitative With Chorus: The Armistice (November 11, 1918) March #2: Return Of The Irish Guards Hymn #2: Survivors Lament #2: The Children Interlude: Statistics Waltz: Does It Matter? Recitative: John Officially Declared Dead (June 10, 1919) Part Six - Reconciliation & Remembrance Lament #3: "All That They Had They Gave..."
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Bass-Baritone Vocals – - Charles Robert Stephens Chorus – Choral Arts Northwest Composed By – - John Muehleisen Conductor – - Robert Bode Soprano Vocals – Kimberly Giordano Tenor Vocals – - Eric Neuville