TRACK LISTING
1) Overture
2) Joe Lieberman reads John F. Kennedy
3) Ask Not [Kennedy]
4) Deepak Chopra reads Jawaharlal Nehru
5) Spoken at Midnight [Nehru]
6) William vanden Heuvel reads Franklin D. Roosevelt
7) The Four Freedoms [Roosevelt]
8) Douglas Brinkley reads Ronald Reagan
9) Tear Down This Wall [Reagan]
10) David Miliband reads Winston Churchill
11) This Deliverance [Winston Churchill]
12) Glenn Close reads Aung San Suu Kyi
13) Water in Cupped Hands [Suu Kyi]
14) Sam Waterston reads Lyndon B. Johnson
15) The American Promise [Johnson]
16) Evander Holyfield reads Nelson Mandela
17) The Time for the Healing of the Wounds [Mandela]
RELEASE INFORMATION
2x GRAMMY WINNING ALBUM:
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
Best Instrumental Composition: "Spoken at Midnight"
Ted Nash Big Band Debuts on Motéma Music September 9 With Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom, Large-Scale Jazz Compositions Inspired by Iconic Speeches of 20th Century World Leaders Including JFK, FDR, Churchill, Mandela and Nehru. The Special 2-CD Package Features Guest Readers Deepak Chopra, Glenn Close, Joe Lieberman, David Miliband, William vanden Heuvel, Sam Waterston, Andrew Young and Guest Artist Wynton Marsalis * Liner Notes by New York Times Best-Selling Authors Douglas Brinkley and Kabir Sehgal.