Choral Concert: America's Authors & Composers

Music of America’s 

Authors and Composers

Writers:  Benjamin Franklin, James Agee,

Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Louise Bogan,

Josh Billings and Walt Whitman

Set by Composers: Randall Thompson, 

Samuel Barber, Vincent Persichetti 

and Jean Berger

and

The World Premiere of John Murphree’s 

PSA-commissioned setting of 

Mark Twain’s “In the Animal’s Court”

Barry singer and John Murphree

conducting