Miss Liberty
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Miss Liberty is a 1949 Broadway musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of New York City's Statue of Liberty in 1886. The score in
Sheet music cover
Edward Moran Unveiling The Statueof Liberty 1886Large
The New Colossus
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"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus. She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a
Miss Liberty
…Liberty Enlightening the World) in 1886. The score includes the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor", a musical setting of Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus" (1883), which was placed at the base of the monument in 1903. In 1885, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett assigns novice reporter Horace…
Emma Lazarus's manuscript for "The New Colossus"
Statue of Liberty in New York City
Bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty with the text of the poem
The poem references the Colossus of Rhodes in the lines: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land."