| 1 | play | Add to Playlist | Fighting For Old Glory | 2:09 | €1.19 | ||
| 2 | play | Add to Playlist | American Brotherhood | 2:42 | €1.19 | ||
| 3 | play | Add to Playlist | Spirit Of America | 2:30 | €1.19 | ||
| 4 | play | Add to Playlist | Officer Of The Guard | 2:05 | €1.19 | ||
| 5 | play | Add to Playlist | 213th Coast Artillery March | 2:19 | €1.19 | ||
| 6 | play | Add to Playlist | Marching Along | 2:09 | €1.19 | ||
| 7 | play | Add to Playlist | The Corcoran Cadets | 2:51 | €1.19 | ||
| 8 | play | Add to Playlist | Yorktown''''s Centennial | 2:31 | €1.19 | ||
| 9 | play | Add to Playlist | March Rajah | 2:51 | €1.19 | ||
| 10 | play | Add to Playlist | Attack March | 2:25 | €1.19 | ||
| 11 | play | Add to Playlist | The Diplomat | 3:01 | €1.19 | ||
| 12 | play | Add to Playlist | The Stars And Stripes Forever | 3:09 | €1.19 | ||
Album Info
America’s struggle for freedom in the Revolutionary War had many hearts – one of them was music. General George Washington knew it – he ordered each regiment in his army to have about fifty fifers and drummers, picked from the ranks. The melodic appeal of these impromptu bands was ragged at first, but their rhythm, the universal language, was as sharply defined as the liberty they sought. Inherent in every lively, marching beat was the inspiring pulse of courage, loyalty and a fighting spirit that sent men off to battle and returned them in the exultant, triumphal strains of victory. For as H.D. Thoreau once wrote: “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe.” The first official U.S. Band, established in 1798, belonged to the Marine Corps and consisted of a “drum major, fife major and thirty-two drums and fifes.” Thirty years later, America’s oldest civilian band was founded – The Allentown Band, Allentown, Pennsylvania. It is therefore most appropriate that the present-day Allentown Band, conducted by Albertus L. Meyers, present an album of patriotic and military marches that carry forth the ideals of our forefathers in stirring renditions that – ‘Let Freedom Ring!’ The fifes and drums that personify the beginnings of American march music in “the spirit of seventy-six” are an integral part of a tune that has been described as “the most sincere and practical expression of American Patriotism ever set to music”... The Stars And Stripes Forever. Conceived by John Philip Sousa aboard ship enroute to New York, the march has been suggested for official governmental recognition as a national air or anthem. In Yorktown’s Centennial, Sousa composed an impression of an actual Revolutionary War event, encompassing everything from minuets and minute men to drum rolls and bugle calls. Other entries from the ‘March King’ include the “salute to protocol” – The Diplomat and the dashing The Corcoran Cadets. All bear the irresistible Sousa stamp – the swinging martial cadence, the patriotic fervor and the highly scintillating lilt. A friend of Sousa’s, D.W. Reeves, who developed one of the greatest marching bands of all time – The American Band of Providence, R. I. – is represented here by his ground-gaining Attack March. For quick-step march fanciers there is the cymbal-crashing, “long may she wave” gallantry of Fighting For Old Glory; the ever-forward, pioneer spirit embodied by Spirit Of America; and the on-parade, Fourth-of-July vigor of Marching Along. Also heard, are two other parade marches with that snappy, pass-in-review precision – Officer Of The Guard and 213th Coast Artillery March, and as a pace-changer, The Allentown Band strikes up March Rajah. But, perhaps the selection that best epitomizes the ‘Let Freedom Ring’ feeling is American Brotherhood – an energetic march medley of three favorite American themes – America, Three Cheers For The Red, White And Blue and America The Beautiful.gogoyoko recommends:
-
-
i
-
- Release Date:
- 01 September 2006
-
- 0
- Reviews
-
- like
- 6
-
-
i
-
-
i
-
- Release Date:
- 09 September 2009
-
- 0
- Reviews
-
- like
- 1
-
-
i
-
-
i
-
- Release Date:
- 06 April 2012
-
- 0
- Reviews
-
- like
- 0
-
-
i
-
-
i
-
- Release Date:
- 02 December 2011
-
- 1
- Reviews
-
- like
- 38
-
-
i
-
-
i
-
- Release Date:
- 07 May 2010
-
- 5
- Reviews
-
- like
- 52
-
-
i
Write a review for Let Freedom Ring!
Maximum 3000 characters
Visit Artist Profile
Share this album
- Label: ... And More Bears
- Genre: Symphony
- Format: Album, MP3, 320 kbps
- Release Date: 13 January 2012
- Hearted: 0 times
Average user rating
0 ratings
Rate this!
5
