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That's 1-800-289-2646. Swiss America Trading. 1-800-289-2646. The heads are up, the tips are out, the arms are swinging, and Cadence count. Down, go. 1-2. Down, go. 3-4. Cadence count. 1-2. 3-4. 1-2. 3-4. I had a good home, but I left. You're right. You had a good home, but you left. You're right. Jody was there when I left. You're right. And Jody was there when you left. You're right. Down, go. 1-2. Down, go. 3-4. 10, count. 1-2. 3-4. 1-2. 3-4. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go back and count some more. Down, go. 1-2. Down, go. 3-4. 10, count. 1-2. 3-4. 1-2. 3-4. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program is a salute to the patriotic music of America. That brief selection you just heard is from a very rare album. It was released in the 1950s by Child Craft Encyclopedia, and it's called Patriotic Songs and Marches for Children. I recently encountered a public school where the children no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance at all. Twice a week, the principal reads the Pledge of Allegiance over the intercom into the classrooms. But the children are not encouraged to stand by the side of their desks, place their hand over their heart, and pledge the flag. This simply is not done. And I thought it would be appropriate, given the state of the nation today, to collect some of this wonderful patriotic American music and some of the stories about it in an episode of the Hour of the Time, if for no other reason than to make it available to our children later on, so they can remember these things and appreciate our great musical heritage, which celebrates our freedom. I'd like to open this evening's program with a rousing rendition of Yankee Doodle. The irony of Yankee Doodle, the first great American popular song, and still a popular favorite, is that it may have been conceived as a mockery of the American colonial soldiers. One of the most common legends about the tune attributes its authorship to a surgeon attached to the British Army at Albany during the French and Indian Wars, who was so bemused by the ragamuffin appearance of the colonial troops attached to his regiment that he composed this mocking little ditty sometime in the 1750s. It soon became a popular British taunt, and even the colonials took to singing it, not realizing that the joke was on them. Supposedly, when Colonel Hugh Percy's troops marched out of Boston in April 1775 on their way to Lexington and Concord, they kept step to the strains of Yankee Doodle. But the colonials had the last laugh. As the British beat a hasty retreat, the victorious Americans followed, singing a gleeful rendition of the tune. This arrangement is performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra. advisories andorders nouses or no believe ma'll be going a o the si i Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Few composers or conductors have delved as deeply into the American idiom as Morton Gould. His brief symphonic work, American Salute, which he wrote in the early 1940s, is a brilliantly orchestrated version of the Civil War song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, one of the finest from our legacy of American popular airs. The tune is unusual in its minor quality, which gives a bittersweet tang to the martial phrases. Gould has accented the bittersweet by making it brilliant and accented the sardonic by making it snappy. The American Salute, a cross between a concert overture and a symphonic march, is in the form of a theme and variations with a theme always recognizable and the mood always stirring. By the way, my really finds deeper and with a compartment at the center of the Covid hair is not quite a Nie meanwhile. 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Written for piano by Frank W. Meacham in 1885, it was soon orchestrated and became a favorite at concerts of the military bands so common around the turn of the century. One reason could well have been Meacham's inclusion of several familiar and beloved American themes, including Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Dixie, and Yankee Doodle in the fabric of the piece. After Miller's instrumental success with the tune, lyricist Edgar Leslie, who also wrote the words for For Me and My Gal, Among My Souvenirs, and many other songs, added the words that turned it into the World War II work entitled We Must Be Vigilant. This is American Patrol. For Me and My Gal, Among My Gal, Among My Gal. For Me and My Gal. For Me and My Gal. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. America proceeds they continue to receive today. His reason? He didn't want to capitalize on this expression of gratitude that he, as an immigrant, felt for the United States. This is God Bless America, sung by Kate Smith. Thank you. God bless America, my home will be home. God bless America, land that I love. God bless America, my home will be home. God bless America. God bless America. God bless America. God bless America. Oh, bless the Mary's mother, my home we fall. And the mountains come through the prairie, through the ocean, my home we fall. Oh, bless the Mary's mother, my home we fall. Oh, bless the Mary's mother, my home we fall. Oh, bless the Mary's mother, my home we fall. It must surely be his masterpiece, The Stars and Stripes Forever. Sousa composed it while returning by ship from Europe, swept up in a surge of patriotic nostalgia and guided, he said, by divine inspiration. The three themes of the final trio were meant to typify the three sections of the United States. The broad melody, or main theme, represents the North. The famous piccolo obbligato is the South. And the bold counter-melody of the trombones recalls the West. Sousa pens the piece on Christmas Day, 1896, presumably in his hotel suite in New York, after the boat had docked. The summarizes the series, a great place, pre-cat, and then in his hotel son, was "...and a ramp upmost of theGreeniest comigo. Sousa pens the city on the right there, and then inrah is the most important part of the map." Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. years later in a magazine called The Congregationalist. In 1913, her poem was set to music, to a melody written in the 1880s by one Samuel A. Ward of Newark, New Jersey for the hymn, O Mother, Dear Jerusalem. So stirring and popular was the resulting song that it was serious competition for the Star-Spangled Banner when a national anthem was finally selected in 1931. This is America the Beautiful. America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America, America. O volunteers of the pilgrim feet, O sin famed been, O father for free. America, America, God bless my every heart. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. Uncarned my soul in self-control, I live as he is in love. His mission was to secure the release of a civilian taken prisoner during the British evacuation of Washington, D.C. But once aboard, he was unable to leave because the fleet had begun its attack on Fort McHenry. When the smoke had cleared the following morning, Key looked at the fort to discover that it had not surrendered. He began scribbling a poem and completed it by the time he got to shore. Sung to an English drinking song to Anna Creon in heaven, his poem became popular immediately, although the Star Spangled Banner didn't become our national anthem until more than a century later in 1931. Your homework assignment is to find a book of English literature and locate the third stanza of the Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key, For we only sing three stanzas of his poem in our national anthem, and he wrote four. This is our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Sp Apache. The Star Spangled Banner. The Star Spangled Banner. The карge the Aunquele. Thank you. Thank you. The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Julia Ward Howe wrote the words for this stirring tune during the Civil War in the process of creating one of the most enduring of patriotic songs. West Virginia. The John Brown referred to was actually an Army sergeant stationed at a fort in Massachusetts. The Atlantic Monthly published Mrs. Howe's lyric, paying her $5, and history took care of the rest. We will join the Battle Hymn of the Republic in progress, taking us up to the top of the hour. And may God bless each and every one of you, and God bless our Republic. And may God bless each and every one of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.