The work focuses on the events of August 4, 1964, when the bodies of three missing civil rights workers were discovered and the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred, escalating the Vietnam War.
Recording & Production
This recording of "August 4, 1964" is its first, made possible by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Performer Biography
Jaap van Zweden, the music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, was appointed at nineteen as the youngest concertmaster ever of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Compositional Technique
Composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer call "August 4, 1964" a concert drama, drawing on aspects of cantata and oratorio.
Composition History
This album, "August 4, 1964," is the first collaboration between Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and acclaimed librettist Gene Scheer.
Composition History
The Dallas Symphony commissioned "August 4, 1964" in observance of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's centenary in August 2008.
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