Symphony No. 5 (Still)

5 "Western Hemisphere", is a 1945 (rev 1970) composition in four movements by American composer William Grant Still.

[1] The work was first performed on November 9, 1970 by the Oberlin College Orchestra conducted by Robert Baustian.

According to one reviewer, the symphony "expresses the composer's thoughts on the natural and human resources of all of the countries of the Americas".

They are endowed by the Great Intelligence who created them and who controls their destiny with virtues unlike any that has gone before: qualities which will find counterparts in the characters of the men who will inhabit them eventually, and who will make them the abode of freedoms, of friendship, of the sharing of resources and achievements of the mind and the spirit.

These are our fellow-Americans in Latin America, Canada, and the islands of the Western Seas, who are today working with us to convert our ideals into realities.