America The Beautiful
arr. Paul Jennings
We are pleased to include this flashback song of one of Paul's fine orchestral arrangements from long ago. 1993, to be exact. It was published then to correspond with its 100th anniversary. Paul wrote an article about it that we have decided to also include in this issue. You'll find it on page 8 and as a reproducible PDF at our web site. The second vocal part is optional, so you can use this song with just about any age level. Most of your students, and probably audience, will already be familiar so consider inviting them to sing along.
Even more beautiful - Our sign language expert, Nate Jones, was also taken with this wonderful arrangement and chose it for this issue's featured piece. He has created video demonstrations that you can use to teach your students signs for this song. You will find these videos at our web site, free to subscribers.
Text is taken from Music K-8 magazine.