Leonard Slatkin, Thomas Peck (chorus master), H. Norman Schwarzkopf (speaker)

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Saint Louis Symphony Chorus

János Starker (Cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano), Anita Priest (Organ), John Georgiadis (Violin), Kyung Wha Chung (Violin), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Elizabeth Harwood (Soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone), Meriel Dickinson (Contralto), Sir Peter Pears (Tenor), Jenny Hill (Soprano),...

Texas All-State 4A Symphonic Band, James F. Keene

Solano Winds, Bill Doherty

Charles Osgood (narrator)

United States Army Field Band, Finley R. Hamilton

Cameron Lewis (narrator)

Illinois Honors Band, Illinois Combined Honors Organizations, Illinois All-State Band, Illinois Combined All-State Organizations, Robert W. Smith, Greg Bimm

Maya Angelou (narrator), Nathan Wyatt (baritone)

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louis Langrée

Howard Klug, The University of Illinois Symphonic Band, Dr. Mark Hindsley, Colonel Arnald Gabriel, James Curnow, Dr. Harry Begian, Gary Smith, James F. Keene

Kenneth Spencer (narrator), New York Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski

Walter Cronkite (narrator), Ian Frenkel (piano), Tracy J. Thomas (vocals), Albert A. Lyman (xylophone), Andrew Sherwood (clarinet), Samuel P. Hasty (trumpet), Gregory R. Wirt (trombone)

United States Coast Guard Band, The, Lewis J. Buckley, Nikolai Ushapovsky