Episode 389: A Birthday for Our Country

The words of our Declaration of Independence are some of the most eloquent ever written. John Adams, and the committee of five who drafted it, shaped a country with their prose. This week on Wind & Rhythm we celebrate America's birthday, with what John Adams expected succeeding generations to remember as the great anniversary festival of our independence.

The Star-Spangled Banner (A Love Song to Our Country)
  arr. Jack Stamp
  DePauw University Band, Craig Paré
American Salute
  Morton Gould
  Northshore Concert Band, John P. Paynter
Revolutionary Fantasy 
  Ernest Williams
  University of Central Oklahoma Wind Symphony,
  Brian Lamb
Shenandoah
  Frank Ticheli
  US Air Force Band, Colonel Dennis Layendecker
American Overture for Band
  Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
  US Army Field Band, Colonel Finley R. Hamilton
Liberty Fanfare
  John Williams
  US Coast Guard Band, Commander W. Kenneth Megan
Suite of Old American Dances
  Robert Russell Bennett
  Michigan State Symphony Band, John Madden
Overture and March "1776"
  Charles Ives
  US Marine Band, Timothy Foley