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Vco Study Guide VCO STUDY GUIDE for “MUSIC IN THE LIFE OF EISENHOWER” MAJOR SPONSORS E. G. Reinsch Companies & Dorchester Towers - Dorchester Apartments Oakland Apartments - Westmont Gardens Reinsch Arlington Boulevard Apartments Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Pierce Family Foundation Dwight D. Eisenhower Society. Additional support from: ArtsFairfax Virginia Commission for the Arts Douglas and Diane Lovejoy TD Bank TABLE OF CONTENTS Video Chapters, Approximate Duration 3 Performers, Panelists In-Studio Discussion 4 Contributors to Guide, Consultants 5 World War II (excerpt) 6-7 Kenneth T. Jackson Victory Order of the Day 7-8 General Dwight D. Eisenhower The Eisenhower Presidency 9 President Dwight D. Eisenhower Music at the White House (excerpt) 9 Elise Kirk Chronology (excerpt: 1943 to 1961) 10 Eisenhower Presidential Library Website resources 11 Relationship to Virginia and National 12 Standards of Learning Upper Elementary Students, Teachers “ Music and Musicians” (excerpt) Richard Panchyk 13 Further Study: topics, listening activities 14 Suggested books 15 TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Middle School Students, Teachers Eisenhower on Leadership- 16-17 Pam Sanfilippo Further study: topics, listening activities 18 Suggested books 19 High School Students, Teachers Eisenhower as Representative American- 20 Michael J. Birkner Further study: topics, listening activities 21 Suggested books 22 College, Lifelong Learners Ike’s Bluff (excerpt) -Evan Thomas 23 Reflections on Eisenhower Farewell Address: The Military-Industrial Complex Speech Bret Baier 24 Suggested books 25 Program Notes: musical selections 26-27 Video Chapters, Approximate Length ( for Program Notes see pages 26 and 27) I. Robert Aubry Davis, Narrator, General introduction (3:02) II. Excerpts: Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, (Italian) I. Allegro vivace Fantasia on Greensleeves, “Oh What A Beautiful Mornin’” (7:40) Virginia Chamber Orchestra III. Historians, students, moderator: Ranking among U.S. Presidents (5:58) IV. “Lead Kindly Light” “Army Blue” 4:27 V. Irving Berlin; “God Bless America” Pro Coro Singers and Orchestra (4:00) VI. Historians, students, moderator (9:06) VII. Glenn Miller; “St Louis Blues,” (8:38) “Moonlight Serenade,” “In The Mood” Airmen of Note Chapters may viewed singly or in any sequence. PERFORMERS, PANELISTS FOR IN-STUDIO DISCUSSION The all-professional VIRGINIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (VCO) presents public concerts and records music live for distribution nationwide, via streaming educational videos on the website: vco.events/videos “Music in the Life of Eisenhower” is the fourth Music of the Presidents project. DAVID GRANDIS, VCO MUSIC DIRECTOR, is Director of Orchestras at the College of William and Mary. In Europe he serves as Assistant Conductor of the historic Lyon National Opera. Grandis’s guest appearances in France include the Bordeaux National Symphony and the Nice Philharmonic. ROBERT AUBRY DAVIS, NARRATOR and DISCUSSION MODERATOR, is creator and host of “Millennium of Music,” carried by over 120 public radio stations nationwide, internationally, and on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. He has been host and moderator of WETA’s TV Emmy-Award-winning weekly arts discussion program, “Around Town,” since its inception in 1986. THE AIRMEN OF NOTE, stationed at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, is the premier jazz ensemble of the Unite States Air Force and part of the United States Air Force Band. Created in 1950 to carry on the tradition of Major Glenn Miller’s Army Air Corps dance band, the “Note” is a touring big band that has attracted eighteen professional jazz musicians from across the United States. In 1990 they established the Jazz Heritage Series on National Public Radio. PRO CORO is a select chamber choir of singers drawn from the Alexandria Choral Society. Both organizations are conducted by Brian Isaac. The Society aspires to enrich the cultural life of the City of Alexandria and surrounding communities by presenting diverse and engaging programs at the highest artistic level. They often collaborate with area orchestras for major musical works. EISENHOWER AUTHORITIES for IN-STUDIO DISCUSSION: DR. MICHAEL J. BIRKNER has been a professor of history at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania since 1989. From 2001 to 2016 he served as Benjamin Franklin Chair of Liberal Arts. His published books include an authoritative biography of Eisenhower and Eisenhower’s Gettysburg Farm. TIMOTHY RIVES is Deputy Director and Supervisory Archivist of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood home in Abilene, Kansas. He has nine videos in the C SPAN Video Library and has published books and articles on a variety of subjects including the American presidency. 4 STUDY GUIDE CONTRIBUTORS, CONSULTANTS Fairfax County History Commission Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, New York, NY: Daniel Pecoraro, Education Coordinator Alinda Borell, Archivist Nicolee Seary, Senior Editor Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, Abilene, Kansas: Pam Sanfilippo, Learning and Engagement Director Kevin Bailey, Reference Archivist Mary Burtzloff, Audiovisual Archivist Eisenhower Historic Site, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Michael Florer, Museum Curator Library of Congress: Carolyn Bennett, Teacher in Residence (2018-2019) Music educator, Wheeler Middle/High School, North Stonington, Connecticut University of Colorado Boulder, American Music Research Center: Dennis M. Spragg, Senior Consultant, Glenn Miller Archives Alexandria City Public Schools: Andrew D. Watson, Fine Arts Instructional Specialist Debra Kay Robinson Lindsay, Instructor Heather Rosner, Instructor Arlington Public Schools: Kelly Breeedlove, Music Curriculum Specialist Kerri Hirsch, Social Studies Curriculum Specialist Fairfax County Public Schools: Jamie Sawatzky, History and Social Studies Instructor Jeanette Essig, Music Resource Teacher Cynthia Carlton, Music Instructor, ret. Jill Connors, Librarian 5 World War II (excerpted) by Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University; provided by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ... So it fell to an obscure Kansan to take charge of the greatest invasion in history. Ike had been only a lieutenant colonel when the war began in 1939. But his good judgment, hard work, and devotion to duty were recognized early on by Marshall, who quickly promoted the affable staff officer over dozens of senior generals. By the early months of 1944, Eisenhower was in charge of all American and Allied ground, sea, and air forces in Europe and busy assembling a gigantic invasion force in England. His mission was to assault the Nazi Atlantic Wall, a network of artillery, beach hazards, and pillboxes that were designed to slaughter anyone foolish enough to come out of the water. The story of D-Day, June 6, 1944, has been told many times. Suffice it to say here that General Eisenhower did four things that will distinguish him forever. First, he made a decision on June 5 that only he could make-to go forward with the invasion despite a terrible weather forecast. By contrast, Field Marshal Rommel, the commander of the Atlantic Wall, who no doubt saw the same predictions, decided that the weather would be so awful that he could safely go back to Germany to visit his wife and son. Eisenhower took a chance that the weather would break and allow the landings to go forward. Fortunately, his hunch proved to be correct. Second, the Supreme Commander took personal responsibility for possible failure, preparing a statement for release to the press in case the invasion force was hurled back into the sea. In such a circumstance, General Eisenhower reported that his soldiers and sailors had done everything he or anyone else could have expected, and that his withdrawal from the beachhead was his fault alone. As it happened, his message never had to be released. Third, Eisenhower, knowing that having given the order to attack, he could do nothing more of a supervisory nature on the afternoon and… 6 evening of June 5, visited the airfields where many thousands of American paratroopers were already making final preparations to be dropped into the midnight darkness behind German lines. With parachutes on their backs, they had blackened their faces and wore heavy camouflage as they stood in groups waiting to board their aircraft. Members of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, they would be the first invaders to land anywhere in Nazi-occupied France, and Ike knew that hundreds of them, maybe more, would be killed the next day. So the commanding general walked informally among the young men, many of them only teenagers, chatting about their hometowns, working his way through the throng, recognizing the perils they would all soon be facing. Finally, as the thousands of ships of the main invasion force pushed away from piers and began to cross the English Channel for the short voyage to Normandy, General Eisenhower read a personal message to the troops who were about to go ashore: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave_ Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. **************************************************
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