WWII vet’s testimony on marriage equality set to music

Composer Melissa Dunphy, a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, has made a choral work out of a World War II veteran’s testimony on marriage equality. The 86-year old Philip Spooner spoke to a committee of the state legislature in Maine on April 22, 2009: Here’s Dunphy’s musical setting “What Do You Think I Fought For At Omaha Beach?” performed by the Simon Carrington Chamber...