Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin America...
Ever since 1928, when his America won a Musical America, magazine contest (with Koussevitzky and Stokowski among the judges), Bloch had had a notion that its broad, sweeping main theme was the best U.S. national-anthem music around -and specifically a lot better than The Star-Spangled Banner. But in 22 years, The Star-Spangled Banner had held its own and Bloch's America had been heard only a handful of times...
Hours of Joy. Composer Bloch, small, bald and grey-fringed, stood on the stage in front of Werner Janssen's* Portland Symphony Orchestra and began with a speech. Gesturing and stomping, he explained that America was written for all the people, "not just for the intelligentsia and the snobs." It was the story of America: the soil, the Indians, the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, hours of joy, hours of sorrow, the present and the future...
...America, America, thy name is in my heart...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...