![]() ![]() ![]() The piece starts with a bang, quite literally, from the timpani. Regardless of the type of connection, Dragon’s arrangement was done for (and premiered by) the university’s concert band. I know he had some sort of a connection with Ohio State University, but I’m having a hard time finding info on exactly what that connection was. He was especially known for conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and composing quite a few film scores. In 1960, Carmen Dragon set the piece for concert band. His hymn tune, “Materna,” was first used as a setting for “O Mother Dear Jerusalem.” In 1904, the tune was used for Bates’s poem, and the rest, as they say, is history. Samuel Augustus Ward (1847-1903) was a composer and organist. “America the Beautiful” began life as a poem by Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929), written in 1893 after a trip to Pike’s Peak. ![]()
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