The Greatest Generation – An American Oratorio

About

Back by popular demand, Roger Ames’ uniquely
"American" oratorio tells the story of a soldier and his family
during the years of the Second World War through the music that sustained the
country during this pivotal time in American and world history – music that
includes some of the greatest songs of love and war ever written. 

This work is not about the usual icons of war. It is not about
fronts, or "taking the hill" or even danger of the kind we usually
attribute to the battlefield. It is about love and loss, worry and trying to
connect over thousands of miles. It is about children who miss their fathers,
and adolescents who fall in love. It is about young boys becoming men, choosing
to follow their own fathers into war —and, especially, about the heartsickness
and worry suffered by those left behind. It is about the wives and daughters
who wish to protect and help in any way possible. But mostly, it is about hope
— hope that life somehow will come back to normal, that fealty will be
rewarded, that prayers will be answered.

This is the story of the heroism of families of servicemen and
women back then as well as of all the heroes in bases and barracks and bivouacs
and homes all-across the world who continue to make those sacrifices for our
country.