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Suntory Hall, Main Hall , Tokyo
7 Jun 2026, Sun
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven , Antonio Bazzini , Antonio Vivaldi , Béla Bartók , Charles Gounod , Cole Porter , Franz Schubert , Frederick Loewe , Georg Philipp Telemann , George Frideric Handel , Gioachino Rossini , Giovanni Battista Martini , Harold Arlen , Jerry Bock , Johann Sebastian Bach , John Kander , Jules Massenet , Max Bruch , Pablo de Sarasate , Sammy Fain , William Steffe
Cast:
Berlin Philharmonic Stradivari Soloists
About
William Steffe, born in South Carolina, was a Philadelphia bookkeeper and insurance agent who is credited with collecting and editing the musical tune for a camp-meeting song with the traditional "Glory Hallelujah" refrain, in about 1856. It opened with "Say, brothers, will you meet us / on Canaan's happy shore?" The tune became widely known.
Early in the American Civil War, this tune was used to create the Union army marching song "John Brown's Body", which begins with the lyrics "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on."
In November 1861, Julia Ward Howe, having heard this version, used the tune as the basis of her new verse, later known as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
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