Posted on 04/18/2008 9:36:25 AM PDT by PurpleMan
Email the U.S. Army Band and ask them to post the live audio file on their website.
Email link: http://www.usarmyband.com/contact/contact_us.html
Sweet.
See Post #11.
IMHO, one of the best renditions of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” that there is on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7HPQM0Jgg&feature=related
This was our theme song at junior high school graduation, how times have changed. Public school. Our entire class sang. We sopranos sang a descant over the final chorus, a prolonged Gloooooooooory, Glooooooory, etc. It was very beautiful and exciting to sing.
I think the part they cut - the “truth is marchin, truth is marching” part - is commonly cut in this Wilhousy arrangement
When I click on it either here or at Rush’s site I get a blank screen.
I hope this works - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZmknvOB4I
I gave my Mom a copy and she has been playing it over and over and over.
Not that it's a bad thing.
Yes, I found it, added choir and it came up - Thanks!
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The best way to describe the playing of the hymn it is to say it was an overcooked extravaganza.
A less musically bombastic performance would have been much better.
bombastic performance or bombastic arrangement?
It works for me...
Personally, I think you’re off your meds.
Another moving piece is The Mansions Of The Lord done by the USMC Cadet Glee Club.
USMC Cadet Glee Club?
Who and where are they from? Part of Canoe-U (USNA)? I don’t think so. That would be the Naval Academy Glee Club.
Both.
I’m sure they had to perform it that way to appeal to the taste of the masses, which taste has been coarsened by decades of increasingly poor music and entertainment.
Standard part of the repertiore.
I guess the arrangement for “Come to Jesus” in B-flat was unavailable.
The arranger Peter Wilhousky prepared the choruses for Arturo Toscanini in the early 1940s and was one of the pre-eminent choral directors in the United States.
This arrangement has been around since the 40’s
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