Kevin Siegfried
O Come Freedom
for SATB a Cappella
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Kevin Siegfried
O Come Freedom
for SATB a Cappella
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB)
- Composer Kevin Siegfried
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- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Galaxy Music Corporation
- Order no. ECS13817
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Description:
O Come Freedom was commissioned by the Capitol Hill Chorale for a joint performance with Washington Revels in 2024. It is a free adaptation of three Shaker songs transcribed from a manuscript in the Library of Congress: "O come freedom," an unattributed song (c. 1840); "I love freedom," a song from Enfield, Connecticut (1840); and "Freedom, freedom, pretty pretty way," a song from Sabbathday Lake, Maine (1846). A couple months before composing O Come Freedom, I had the great pleasure of hearing the American Spiritual Ensemble live in performance, and that performance still rang in my ear when writing this work. —Kevin Siegfried