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A hymn tune composed in 1882 by Samuel A. Ward, the organist and choir director at Grace Church, Newark, was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today. Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, too, was inspired.
18 juin 2024 · America the Beautiful, patriotic American hymn, regarded as the United States’ unofficial national anthem and one of the country’s best-known songs. The song extols the grandeur of the American landscape as well as the nation’s ideals.
3 nov. 2020 · How ‘America the Beautiful’ was born. To gather inspiration for her patriotic poem, scholar and social activist Katharine Lee Bates traveled the U.S. Her words tell the American story. Riders...
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Learn how poet Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem "Pikes Peak" in 1893, inspired by the view from the top of a mountain in Colorado. Discover how the poem was adapted to music by Samuel A. Ward and became a patriotic hymn.
In a brief essay that appeared ca. 1925, poet Katharine Lee Bates described her inspiration for writing "America the Beautiful," the poem that would evolve into one of the nation’s best-loved patriotic songs, during a trip to Pike’s Peak in 1893. Bates was a professor at Wellesley and had traveled west to teach a summer course in Colorado ...
4 juil. 2023 · We explore the lyrics and history of beloved US patriotic song, ‘America the Beautiful’. Once on the table to become the national anthem of the United States, ‘America the Beautiful’ has never quite succeeded in ousting its musical rival, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ – but it holds a meaningful place in the hearts of many ...
America the Beautiful est un hymne patriotique américain dont les paroles ont été écrites par Katharine Lee Bates sur une musique de Samuel A. Ward. Katharine Lee Bates l'écrivit d'abord comme un poème puis le publia dans The Congregationalist en 1895.
