Philadelphia International Music FestivalMay 26,  2014
Remembering through the words of history those who paid the high price for freedom, both in the U.S. and around the world.
  
Joseph Drake
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.  
  
Woodrow Wilson
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves selves drank.

 

Ronald Reagan

The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all.

  
Bill Clinton

  

Dwight D. Eisenhower
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.  
  
George W. Bush
On this Day of Memory, we mourn brave citizens who laid their lives down for our freedom. They lived and died as Americans. May we always honor them. May we always embrace them. And may we always be faithful to who they were and what they fought for.

Mark Twain
    
Thomas William Parsons
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!  
  

John F. Kennedy 

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

 

Daniel Webster

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

 

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

  
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The Philadelphia International Music Festival regularly hosts students from throughout the U.S. and around the world in its many and varied programs, including: Orchestral Studies, Solo Performance Preparation, Wind Ensemble & Concert Band Performance, Piano, and Opera. For detailed information, visit: www.PhiladelphiaMusicFestival.org.