America: Fanfare for the Common Man

Celebrate freedom and independence.
Sept 17th is the 224th anniversary of the US Constitution. Please take a few minutes to read it....it is only a few pages long, but it speaks volumes, especially the first 10 Amendments. Also, please remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifices so that we may have our freedoms. Many thanks, BigBen.




THE REAL MEANING OF AMERICA ---




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For those who wonder the Copland piece is played by the US Marine Band. Here's the Library of Congress link:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.100010429/default.html

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[bigbeninjax]

Now that our president apparently has a license to kill, should we ask Sean Connery to come out of retirement to play “Double-Obama”? I guess it’s OK to ignore the Constitution to assassinate and detain American citizens or start his own war in Libya resulting in the assassination of another head of state as long as he uses a cruise missile or Predator drone to actually do the killing instead of a Walther PPK. Not to worry if all those Predators go rogue, Arnold Schwarzenegger is acting again!

[Gordontrek]

That was the Marine Band??? AWESOME BRASS!!!! Thanks for uploading and USA ALL THE WAY

[bigbeninjax]

@Gordontrek Agreed...I hunted around quite a bit before settling on this version...it has the clearest and cleanest brass without slurring, as well as good timing, IMHO. Glad you enjoyed it. LL&P.

[Gordontrek]

@bigbeninjax Yes the brass is very clear and wholesome! Also, if you're looking for another good recording, I would recommend the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recording with Erich Kunzel, that's the one I settled on myself. I'm an avid classical musician and listener, and out of all the professional orchestras I've ever heard, they have the best brass.

[bigbeninjax]

@Gordontrek Good info....thanks a lot, I'll check it out.

[fergie123able]

Reading the comments on this video, it's amazing how many ignorant and hypocritical Keyboard Warriors there are. America's the worst! It's racist/greedy/evil/INSERT DUMBASS COMMENT HERE. I'm sure all of YOUR countries have been perfect little utopias for us ignorant, lazy stupid Americans to look up to right? Yeh, Europe, way to go! Because you didn't completely colonize and enslave the entire f**king world for centuries! You guys are right. No country but the US has ever done anything bad ever

[PilgrimWebster]

@xxxocolate As a non-American I say that despite any failings the United States is one of the very few nations founded on the concept of aiming for the best that humans can achieve and I support them to the limit.

We,all of us, might fail but as long as we try to be the best we can we have a moral superiority to those who subjugate their will to lesser ideals.

Die trying or die in shame.

[bigbeninjax]

@ilovetogofast88 You should have left your comment, except maybe the f-word....I liked it.

[ksrm2]

COMIN AGAIN TO SAVE THE MUTHAFUCKIN DAY YEAHHHH

[shadowdudej]

MMMUUURICA FUCK YEAH