Be Glad Then America

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Be Glad Then America
William Billings

Subtitled “An Anthem for Fast Day”, Billings’ “Be Glad Then America” is especially suitable for our American holiday of Thanksgiving or other patriotic-religious observances. It also serves well as a general anthem stressing penitence, hope and praise. A sectional work, six minutes in length, its hymn-like sections and “fuguing” tunes add up to one of the composer’s most substantial and colorful compositions from “The Continental Harmony” (1794).A recording of this work is available on Gloriae Dei Cantores 008, “Be Glad then America”.