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...days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired 21 rounds...
Among the products of the widespread U. S. yearning for a new national anthem was a $3,000 prize competition sponsored by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan, philanthropist, instigator of the Brooks-Bright Foundation (for the exchange of British and U. S. schoolboys). Last week the judges, Tenor Lambert Murphy, Musical Writer Sigmund Spaeth, Poet Witter Bynner, Baritone Reinald Werrenrath, announced that the best anthem had been submitted by Musical Writer Frederick Herman Martens (words) of Rutherford, N. J., and Pianist Leo Ornstein (music), that they would divide the prize. Final stanza of their anthem, entitled America...
...officers were elected: Russell Morgan, music supervisor of Cleveland, president; Max Krone, a Morgan assistant, vice president. A prize trip abroad was awarded to George E. Wahlstrom, supervisor of instrumental music of Ashtabula, O. A Resolution was passed to suggest to Congress to make "America the Beautiful"* the National anthem, instead of "The Star Spangled Banner," the words of which were voted too militant, the music too difficult for children to learn easily...
...Music by Samuel A. Ward, words by Katherine Lee Bates, late Professor of English at Wellesley College. At the Bandmasters' Convention held a fortnight ago in Middletown, Ohio, there were delegates who wanted Sousa's "Stars & Stripes Forever" for the National anthem. Their criticism of "The Star Spangled Banner" was that it came from an old English drinking song...
...name of this astonishing goddess? at once political and religious?is of course "Mother India." The political anthem and the religious chant of her devotees is Bande Mataram ("Hail Mother...