Commissioned by The West Point Academy for their 2002 Bicentennial celebration at Carnegie Hall Composer Kimo Williams is the Buffalo Soldier on horseback and featured on the cover as the subject for the artist Konrad Hack. The music and the program notes provide the historical perspective that makes this work appropriate as a recognition of these brave soldiers and their service to this country. This current CD was initially distributed as Symphony For The Sons of Nam and the current track Buffalo Soldiers was re-titled American Soldier for that release and included a narration by Kimo’s friend actor Gary Sinise. The motivation for the initial title change was the war in Iraq. After viewing the first prisoners of war on television at the start of the war, Kimo was so moved by their plight he decided to re-title the work and dedicate it to all soldiers. He felt that throughout history all service members sacrificed themselves, as did those great Buffalo Soldiers in 1866, for what we all believe in. In 2006 Kimo re-titled American Soldier to it's original title Buffalo Soldiers and reinserted an Abraham Lincoln speech as well as a speech (personally granted to the composer) by General Colin Powell. The work is now back in its original definitive version that more clearly reflects the initial inspiration of the composition. The track Buffalo Soldiers includes a narration edited by Carol Williams and presented by Kimo Williams, of a speech by Abraham Lincoln and a speech given by Colin Powell to celebrate the unveiling of the Buffalo Soldier Statue at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas in 1992.
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