"The single greatest radio program we ever heard" -- Billboard Magazine

ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH honors the day of victory over Nazi Germany.
This is Norman Corwin's plea for lasting peace. Diplomacy, tolerance and civil liberties were common themes throughout his work.
A writer of conscience with deep convictions and compassion for the common man, he highly respected the principles of democracy, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Bernard Herrmann's masterful score adds depth and color to Corwin's profound and powerful words.
Carl Sandburg called ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, "...one of the all-time great American poems."
Corwin continues to be regarded by many as the Poet Laureate of Radio.
ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH was first broadcast on V-E Day, May 8, 1945, from Hollywood. Corwin wrote the script, directed and produced. Martin Gabel was narrator. The score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Lud Gluskin conducted. William Shirer, speaking from San Francisco, appeared as himself.
By popular demand, the program was repeated five days later, live from New York. The second broadcast was recorded and released as an album.
Together, the two broadcasts set records for audience response, even surpassing the previous high point set in 1941 by Corwin's WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS.*
Simon & Schuster immediately published Corwin's script. The first printing sold out in a week.
In 2022, the Library of Congress added ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH to its National Recording Registry.
Corwin's WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS had been added to the National Recording Registry in 2004.
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On a Note of Triumph
Copyright 1945, Norman Corwin
All rights reserved, Norman Corwin Administrative Trust
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Sourced from Norman Corwin's notes regarding ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, published in UNTITLED AND OTHER RADIO DRAMAS, Henry Holt, 1945, 1947.