VESSELS OF COURAGE AND HOPE for orchestra (1998)
PROGRAM NOTE [Historical note: The USS President Warfield was a battle-scarred, Baltimore-based luxury-steamer-turned-naval-vessel during World War II when it was secretly bought by the Jewish underground movement Haganah, with funding by the American Jewish community. Under a mostly American volunteer crew it sailed in 1947 to the Mediterranean, loading at the French port of Sète…
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