Day of days!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the approaching of the Lord
He’s trapling out the classic the place the grapes of wrath are saved
He have loosed the faiteful lightening of his horrible swift sword
His fact is marching on
We will likely be speaking about this January twentieth, 2025 for years to return. The Golden age of America obtained began on the proper foot with the inauguration and the multitude of balls and galas and events peppering throughout DC.
Whether or not the ceremony was moved indoors because of freezing climate, or else due to perceived safety threats, the primary indoor inauguration in 40 years was a really shifting affair.
However a second from that night was so emotional and patriotic, that it deserves an encore right here on TGP.
We’re speaking in regards to the Naval Academy Glee Membership performing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
Because the voices of the midshipmen and ladies echoed from the neoclassical fashion partitions of the Capitol rotunda, the dignitaries – together with former presidents, Supreme Court docket justices, and world leaders – had been transported out of area and time right into a mythological and patriotic dimension by which the majestic room beneath the Capitol dome actually grew to become the ‘symbolic and bodily coronary heart’ of the Capitol, and of America as an entire.
I’ve learn a fiery gospel writ in burnish’d rows of metal
As ye cope with my condemners so with you my grace shall deal
Let the hero, born of lady, crush the serpent along with his heel
His fact is marching on
Hundreds of thousands of individuals all around the world had been additionally impacted by the shifting rendition of the anthem.
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” is a patriotic American music – with lyrics by Julia Ward Howe and music by William Steffe – that was written in the course of the American Civil Battle in 1861, and shortly grew to become a strong anthem for the Union forces.
The rendition by the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Membership was phenomenal, with wealthy vocal harmonies, and really intelligent adjustments in key and in tempo, holding the usual verse-chorus construction alive and thrilling throughout all of the music.
He has sounded kind the trumpet that shall by no means name retreat
He’s sifting out the hearts of males earlier than His judgment-seat
Oh, be swift, my soul to reply, oh be jubilant, my ft
His fact is marching on
In reality, typically conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin slowed the tempo a lot, and the melody and lyrics grew to become so poignant that my face was awash in tears like this singer beneath:
Watch: flip the sound on, and have a patriotic flashback to have a good time the start of a incredible journey.
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— Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) January 20, 2025
In the fantastic thing about the lilies Christ was born throughout the ocean
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me
As he died to make males holy allow us to die to make males free
His fact is marching on
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic” can also be by definition an abolitionist music, so it feels proper to additionally relay right here the equally historic 1963 model by Odetta, celebrated for its emotional depth and powerful supply:
