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Samuel A. Ward
Samuel Augustus Ward was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters. He is remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna", which he intended as a setting for the hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem". This was published ten years later, in 1892. In 1903, after Ward had died, the tune was first combined by a publisher with the Katharine Lee Bates poem "America", itself first published in 1895, to create the patriotic song "America the Beautiful." The first book with the combination was published in 1910. Ward never met Bates. Ward was founder and first director of the Orpheus Club of Newark, where he died on September 28, 1903. He is buried in Newark‘s Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Ward was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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America, The Beautiful
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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America the Beautiful
US Navy Band
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America the Beautiful
Samuel A. Ward, Katherine L. Bates, & David A. Brinker
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American the Beautiful (feat. SSgt Michael Coleman, SSgt Timothy Egan, SSgt Keith Martinez & Sgt Leland Jordon)
US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, Samuel Augustus Ward, Major Brent A. Harrison, and Samuel A. Ward
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America the Beautiful
U.S. Air Force Band & Singing Sergeants & Samuel A. Ward

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You're A Grand Old Flag

DaveTinleyPark • 560K views
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America, the Beautiful, arr. Douglas E. Wagner – Score & Sound

Alfred Music Concert Band • 15K views
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America the Beautiful - United States Marine Band

Audio Library - Free Music • 2.9K views
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West Point Glee Club "The Corps, America the Beautiful & The Army Goes Rolling Along"

The Ed Sullivan Show • 14K views
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Somewhere – Bernstein, arr. Bocook

Frisco Community Band • 3.4K views
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US Marine Band: America the Beautiful

mbuggy11 • 115K views
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America the Beautiful - Samuel Ward, arranged by Carmen Dragon

Tampa Bay Symphony • 4.2K views

Live performances