DEBG Music Distributors

Materna by Samuel Ward wrote Betty Garee "probably the most beloved of our patriotic hymns, is America the Beautiful. You are all familiar with the famous poem by the Wellesley English literature professor Katharine Lee Bates: Miss Bates received her inspiration during a trip out west in 1893."  This arrangement ends with haunting stacked open fifths demarcating the melody, and a relentless tremolando of the treble bells. Materna's power reduces you to tears and lifts you to a better plane.