FReeper Canteen - Memorial Day Weekend Tribute

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~ Memorial Day Weekend Patriotic Music ~

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Tunes For The Troops

This weekend we honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to America.

A heartfelt thank you to all who serve!!

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops.

All music is removed on Monday. Please Contact Kathy in Alaska or AZamericonnie to be added or removed from the music ping list.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Echo Taps	Semper Fidelis March
The Sun Harbor's Chorus -The Halls of Montezuma	U.S. Army Band - A Hero for Today
U.S. Army Band - Duty, Honor, Country	U.S. Army Band - Heroic Fanfare
U.S. Army Band - Hymn to the Fallen {From Saving Private Ryan}	U.S. Army Band - National Anthem
U.S. Army Band - The Armed Services Medley	U.S. Army Band - The Last Full Measure of Devotion
U.S. Army Band - This Is My Country	U.S. Army Band - We Were There
U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers Chorus - God Bless the USA	U.S. Navy Sea Chanters - Eternal Father
United States Air Force Band - Battle Hymn of the Republic	United States Air Force Band - God Bless America
United States Air Force Band - Lord Guard and Guide	United States Air Force Band - The Higher We Fly
United States Coast Guard Tribute Semper Paratus	United States Marine Band - God Our Fathers
United States Marine Band - The Stars and Stripes Forever	United States Navy Band - Amazing Grace
United States Navy Band - America the Beautiful	United States Navy Band - Liberty Fanfare
US Air Force Song - Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder	US Army Song - The Army Goes Rolling Along
US Navy Band -Anchors Aweigh	West Point March

Aaron Tippin - Where The Stars And Stripes And The Eagle Fly	Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something
Alabama - Born Country	Alabama - Down Home
America - Tennessee Ernie Ford	America The Beautiful (Live) - Ronnie Milsap
Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Tennessee Ernie Ford	Big And Rich - 8Th Of November
Billy Gilman - There's a Hero	Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All
Blackhawk - Days Of America	Brooks & Dunn - 'Til My Dyin' Day
Bruce Robinson - Travelin' Soldier	Buddy Jewell - Sweet Southern Comfort
Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Some Mother's Son	Charlie Daniels - Let Freedom Ring
Charlie Daniels Band - In America	Charlie Daniels Band - This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
Charlie Rich - America the Beautiful	Chely Wright - The Bumber Of My Suv
Charlie Daniels Band - My Beautiful America	Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten
Dave Matthews Johnny Cash - For You	David Ball - Riding With Private Malone
Diamond Rio - One More Day	Due South - Joey and Laura
Dusty Drake - One Last Time	Elvis Presley - America The Beautiful [Live]
Five for Fighting - The Beautiful	Garth Brooks - Belleau Wood
Garth Brooks - We Shall Be Free	Montgomery Gentry - Tattoos and Scars
God Bless America (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Kate Smith	God Bless The U.S.A. - Lee Greenwood
Gretchen Wilson - Politically Uncorrect	Hank Williams Jr - Mr. Lincoln
Hank Williams Jr. - A Country Boy Can Survive	Hank Williams, Jr. - America Will Survive
India.Arie - Good Man	Jars of Clay - The Widowing Field
John Conlee - They Also Serve	John Michael Montgomery - Letters From Home
John Wayne America - Why I Love Her	Johnny Cash - The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
Johnny Cash Marty Robbins - Song of the Patriot	Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland	Katherine Jenkins - Hymn To The Fallen
Keni Thomas - Flags of Our Fathers	Keni Thomas - Hero
Keni Thomas - Not Me	Kenny Rogers - Homeland
Kenny Rogers - Long Arm Of The Law	Joseph Rizza MacKenzie, Joseph Kilna - Sgt. MacKenzie
LeAnn Rimes - God Bless America	Lee Greenwood - God Bless The U.S.A.
Lonestar - I'm Already There	Lonestar - My Front Porch Looking In
Lonestar - Somebody's Someone	Martina McBride - Blessed
Martina McBride - God Bless America	Mary Chapin Carpenter - My Dear Old Friend
Michael MacDonald & Jamie O'Neil - Not So Distant Day	Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee
Merle Haggard - The Fightin' Side of Me	Montgomery Gentry - Didn't I
Montgomery Gentry - My Town	Montgomery Gentry - You Do Your Thing
Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Battle Hymn Of The Republic	Neal McCoy - I'm Your Biggest Fan
Neal McCoy - The Last Of A Dying Breed	Oak Ridge Boys - American Made
The Mansions of the Lord (Suite)	Phil Vassar - American Child
Michael MacDonald - This Is God	Ralph Stanley II - Are You Proud Of America
Randy Travis - America Will Always Stand	Randy Travis - Heroes & Friends
Rascal Flatts - The Glory of Life	Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
Ricochet - The Star Spangled Banner	Sgt. Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Berets
Shooter Jennings - 4th Of July	Stars And Stripes Forever - Victory Military Band
Steven Curtis Chapman - Soldier	Sugarland - Everyday America
Tammy Cochran - I Believe	Taps history told by John Wayne
The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	The Charlie Daniels Band - This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag
The Star-Spangled Banner (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Bill Gaither Presents The Isaacs	The Warren Brothers - Hey Mr. President
This Land Is Your Land - Lee Greenwood	Toby Keith - courtesy of the red, white and blue (the angry american)
Toby Keith - live introduction by Toby of courtesy of the red, white, and blue (the angry american)	Trace Adkins - Arlington
Tracy Byrd - I'm From The Country	Tracy Lawrence - If I Don't Make It Back
Tracy Lawrence - If The World Had A Front Porch	Travis Tritt - What Say You
Waylon Jennings - America	Waylon Jennings - The Eagle
Willie Nelson - Living In The Promiseland	Your A Grand Old Flag - The Broadway Parade

I’ve run out of British songwriters, Brill Building songwriters, Nashville and Memphis songwriters, and Motown songwriters. Starting next week, I’m going to make Brahms intelligible and enjoyable for people who don’t know classical music and who consider him a stuffy bore. That is going to be a challenge, and I anticipate it will take at least as many weeks as my Jimmy Webb retrospective.

Here’s a little bon-bon before I scoot out to Charleston for the Spoleto Music Festival where I’ll be meeting my old friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

For those who watch those wonderfully slow and moody Jesse Stone TV movies on CBS with Tom Selleck, there is a classical piano piece that Jesse puts on when he is particularly depressed and is knocking back glass after glass of scotch. It’s late Brahms, written when the composer had nothing more to prove to the world and was writing just for himself. His short piano pieces are not difficult technically, but they are very tough to play with the right amount of expressiveness.

This one is contemplative and beautiful. The opening melody in A Major is graceful and is something of a love song. At 1:53 the B section changes to F# minor with a pensive little melody; it switches to F# Major briefly before resuming in the minor. At 3:29, Brahms recapitulates his A section. As always, Brahms re-composes his recapitulations, never taking the lazy way out with mere repetition. The end is utter simplicity. If your screen goes blurry, I’ll understand.

Brahms: Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118/2, played by Arthur Rubinstein

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