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- Stephen Flaherty
From Sea to Shining Sea (for narrator, chorus, and orchestra)
- Warner Chappell Music Inc (USA and Canada only)
Commissioned by the Boston Pops
Music by Stephen Flaherty (after Samuel A. Ward)
Lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates
Text by John de Graaf
Adaptation and additional text by Lynn Ahrens
Orchestrated by Bill Elliott
- narr + SATB; 2+pic.2(II:ca).2.2/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.2perc.dmkit/pf.hp/str
- SATB
- Narrator
- 12 min
- John de Graaf, Katharine Lee Bates and Lynn Ahrens
- English
Programme Note
Church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward set the lyrics of "Materna" to music in 1882 at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, NJ. Inspired by the view of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains from atop Pike's Peak, Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem "Pikes Peak" in 1893 and published it as "America." Though Bates and Ward never met, her poem and his music joined together in 1910 to become "America the Beautiful," perhaps the country's most beloved patriotic song.
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