Jon Adams
Highflight
Jon Adams
Highflight
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB)
- Composer Jon Adams
- Series Pavane Secular
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Pavane Publishing
- Order no. 08301729
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Description:
This well-known tribute to the wonders of aviation was written by American John Gillespie Magee, Jr. just three months before he died in World War II. Ronald Reagan used a well-remembered line in his famous tribute following the tragic loss of the Challenger 7 crew in 1986: We shall never forget them nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their mission and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth... to touch the face of God. '