Pride of a People

Stephen Bulla

Medley arranged by Stephen Bulla

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General Info

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Publisher: U.S. Marine Band
Cost: Score and Parts - Unpublished

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This is My Country was composed by Al Jacobs in 1940, with lyrics by Don Raye. The song was popularized by Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians and later recorded by such artists as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Patti LaBelle. You’re a Grand Old Flag first appeared in the 1906 stage musical George Washington, Jr., a production of American theater legend George M Cohan, who sang the number while wrapped in an American flag. The current lyrics were adopted after numerous complaints about the original title You’re a Grand Old Rag. My Country ‘tis of Thee served as one of America’s unofficial anthems before The Star-Spangled Banner was officially adopted in 1931. Reverend Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics in 1831 for a melody he selected from a German hymnbook, unaware that the tune was already used as the British anthem God Save the King. Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted Smith’s lyrics when he spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, calling on the nation to “let freedom ring.”

- Program Note from score U.S. Marine Band concert program, 11 July 2019

Commercial Discography

• Audio CD: Coastal Communities Band (Encinitas, Calif.) (Tom Cole, conductor) - 2019

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Bryan P. Sherlock, conductor; Kevin Bennear, baritone) – 23 February 2020
• United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C.) (Ryan J. Nowlin, conductor; Kevin Bennear, baritone) - 11 July 2019
• United States Marine Band (Washington, D.C. (Michelle Rakers, conductor; Kevin Bennear, baritone) – 24 July 2014

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Adirondack Festival Overture (2014)
• Andante con Moto (as arranger) (1816/2003)
• Bells of Christmas (1999)
• Blue Mountain Saga (1995)
• Bond, James Bond (as arranger)
• Cartoon Capers (as arranger) (2000)
• Celestial Suite (1989)
• Christmas Calypso (1997)
• Cole Porter Songbook (as arranger)
• Declaration for Trumpet
• Ellington! (as arranger) (2019)
• Escapades (as transcriber) (2002/2012)
• Euphonium Fantasia
• Excerpts from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (as arranger) (1978/2009)
• Fascinating Rhythm (as arranger) (1924)
• Firestorm (1992)
• Heather Ridge Sketches (2000)
• The Imperial March (as arranger) (1980/2008)
• Irish Lullaby, An
• Irish Songs, Set No 1 (as arranger)
• Irish Songs, Set No 2 (as arranger) (2004)
• Legend of Knife River (1997)
• Legends of Jazz (as arranger) (2012)
• Library of Congress March, The (as arranger)
• Mambo Greats (as arranger) (2013)
• Mancini! (as arranger) (2000?)
• March Creole (1995)
• North Bridge Portrait (2001)
• Of Ancient Dances (2015)
• Pride of a People (as arranger)
• Rhapsody for Flute (1996)
• Rhapsody for Hanukkah (1994)
• Russian Carol Variations (1999)
• The Schumann Suite (as arranger) (1997)
• Selections from "Into the Woods" (as arranger)
• Selections from "The Great Race" (as arranger)
• Selections from ''Sweeney Todd'' (as arranger) (1979/2009)
• Shipston Prelude (2000)
• Sinatra! (as arranger) (2011)
• Slavonic Fantasy (as arranger)
• Sondheim! (as arranger) (2021)
• Stephen Foster Songbook (as arranger) (1999)
• Symphonette (2003)
• Symphonic Highlights from "Frozen" (as arranger) (2013)
• Tiger Rag (as adapter)
• Tribute to Louis Armstrong (as arranger)
• Trilogy Americana (2002)
• Uncommon Valor (1995)
• Wade in the Water (as arranger) (2001)
• Winterfest (as arranger) (2002)
• Yankee Doodle (as arranger) (1845/)

Resources

None discovered thus far.