You Oh, my God. You're listening to the Hour of the Time, and I'm Michelle. Oh, my God. 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. This arrangement is transferred by the New York p and Alec Perry scary, along with Brian Dean and Crockett. 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. jogaremos no zoom. The clear arms in bright, his grave noch so did notened. Godhead an excellent primary Praise God, Lord, King. 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.umingenic 1505- 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. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. the score because he didn't think it was appropriate for the scene in which it was to be sung. It lay neglected in his songwriter's trunk for 20 years until Kate Smith, planning a radio program for Armistice Day, asked Tim to write a new patriotic song for her. Berlin tried but was unhappy with all of his efforts. Then he remembered the song he had written in 1918. Kate sang it on the radio for the first time on November the 10th, 1938, and it met with overwhelming enthusiasm. The following year, Berlin assigned all of the royalties to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of 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. God Bless America, land that I love, can be tighter, and tighter, through the night with the light from above. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. God bless America, my home sweet home. And the man who is recognized In the YouTube page Like the APIs The Ives of and the Сам My home we fall God bless America My home we fall God bless America As the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. is called the Waltz King, so and for equal reason is America's own John Philip Sousa known as the March King. And if any one march offers explanation for that title, 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 penned the piece on Christmas Day, 1896, presumably in his hotel suite in New York, after the boat had docked. Back to 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. For a number of years, John Philip Sousa was widely thought to have composed The Kaysons Go Rolling Along, a tribute to the artillerymen who hit the dusty trail as the Kaysons Go Rolling Along. The attribution was due to the publication in 1918 of the U.S. Field Artillery March, listing the March King as composer. Actually, Sousa's version was only an arrangement of a march that had been composed 11 years earlier by Edmund L. Gruber, a career Army officer, for a reunion in the Philippine Islands of two long-separated units of the 5th Field Artillery Regiment. A post-World War II adaptation turned Gruber's tune into The Army Goes Rolling Along, which was subsequently designated the official song of the United States Army. The Army Goes Rolling The Army Goes for the United States Army to the list. So how we got together? No Dougiscover the Fmostly Council or the Fmostly Council of the World Artillery Regiment. The End The End The End The End Easily the most recent of the classic United States military songs is one that was known to every child growing up in America during World War II as Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder. It was written in 1939 by Robert M. Crawford, a member of the music faculty at Princeton, for a contest sponsored by Liberty Magazine to find a song for the newly formed Army Air Corps and was known at that time as the Army Air Corps Song. In accordance with the changes the years have brought, the song and the Corps are now known as the U.S. Air Force. The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End This way, for you all, yes, I can't help, I can't help, I can't help, I can't help. Although she had been to Europe many times, Catherine Lee Bates, a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, had never seen much of her native country. So, in 1893, she attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and then traveled on to Colorado Springs. One day, she ventured to the top of nearby Pikes Peak. She was overcome by the view from the summit, and that night wrote the first draft of a poem, America the Beautiful. It was published two 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 the Beautiful Oh, beauty one for spacious skies, For amber waves of rain, Oh purple, KE deze op deiot, Oh blue and gold chamberix, de eite, een BENEFIS, Come zeg, hopefully, Come here, we go, Come zeg, hey! 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. On the morning of September 13, 1814, during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key boarded a British warship in Chesapeake Bay under a flag of truce. 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. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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