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Sounds of the Americas
September 19, 2025 - FREE CONCERT
Program

Helen Martell, conductor

Hunter Enoch, bass-baritone/narrator


Christopher Newport University Great Lawn, Newport News, Friday, September 19, 2025  7:30PM

John Stafford Smith

Star-Spangled Banner

 

 

J​ohn Williams

Liberty Fanfare

 

 

 Stephen Foster/Luck

Beautiful Dreamer

     Hunter Enoch, bass-baritone

 


Aaron Copland


"I Bought Me a Cat" from Old American Songs

     Hunter Enoch, bass-baritone


Leroy AndersonChicken Reel
Howard Shore/WhitneyLord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 

Michael Giaccino/MooreMusic from Coco
Antonio Carlos Jobim/PloyharThe Girl from Ipanema

Zequinha De Abreu/Velásquez 
Tico Tico


-- intermission --

Robert SingletonTheme from When Instruments Roamed the Earth!® 

Duke Ellington/ CusterDuke Ellington! A Medley for Orchestra

James HosayTo Heal a Nation
     Hunter Enoch, narrator

James HosayPatriotic Sing- Along
    Hunter Enoch, bass-baritone


Special Thanks to Presenting Sponsor Weymouth Funeral Home & Crematory

Sing-Along Lyrics

America

My country, ’tis of Thee,

Sweet Land of Liberty

Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims’ pride,

From every mountain side

Let Freedom ring.


America the Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountains’ majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed his grace on Thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!


You’re a Grand Old Flag

You’re a grand old flag,

You’re a high flying flag

And forever in peace may you wave.

You’re the emblem of

The land I love.

The home of the free and the brave

Ev’ry heart beats true

for the Red, White and Blue,

Where there’s never a boast or brag.

But should auld acquaintance be forgot,

Keep your eye on the grand old flag.


Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found;

Was blind, but now I see.


When we’ve been there ten thousand years,

Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

Than when we’d first begun.


Eternal Father Strong to Save

Eternal Father, strong to save,

Whose arm doth bound the restless wave,

Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep

Its own appointed limits keep;

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,

For those in peril on the sea!


Battle Hymn of the Republic

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:

His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

His truth is marching on. His truth is marching on.