Austin Symphonic Band Performing The Star-Spangled Banner arranged by Jack Stamp

Austin Symphonic Band. April 3, 2016 concert at Austin ISD Performing Arts Center in Austin TX. ASB performing The Star-Spangled Banner arranged by Jack Stamp. Music Director Richard Floyd conducting. Concert title: "Music of the Americas". Audio recording by On Site Digital, Randy Bryant owner, David Smith recording engineer.
From the concert program (program notes written by David Cross):
The Star-Spangled Banner (1986)
Jack Stamp (b. 1954)
From the composer: In 1986, while a graduate student with Gene Corporon at Michigan State, I did an arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for wind ensemble to be performed at the WASBE Conference in Boston. The arrangement treats the work as a hymn/ballad with lots of suspensions and some substitute chords, rather than the “drinking song” style of the tune’s origins.
On Friday, September 14, 2001 (three days after the brutal attack on the World Trade Center), I put the arrangement on the computer and tweaked it, since I knew a little more about composition fifteen years later.
George Naff, former marching band director at East Carolina University, said that a national anthem should be a citizen’s “love song to their country.” I would suggest reflection on the words of the fourth verse of the national anthem while listening to this version:
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vic’try and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God Is Our Trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
Jack Stamp is a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he teaches conducting. Prior to this appointment he served as Director of Band Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for 25 years.

[@firechf10]

Dr. Stamp was my high school band director and we played this for every home football game. This brings back many memories.

[@alanbauder5089]

My daughter played this version of the National Anthem during her two trips to Pennsylvania District 11 finals during her high school junior and senior years. She also did this with several other bands years ago. I am always blown away by this arrangement. It's absolutely my favorite version of the Anthem. I actually have a CD recording of her playing the first few notes on bass clarinet during one of those concerts.

[@JamieTucker1974]

Love this version of the national anthem!

[@timbuiepiano]

I have been around the world performing in over 40 Countries as a Piano Entertainer! Jack Stamp along with my parents are the ones who told me I could do it! I Believed them all and damn, it happened! He was our Band Director at John T. Hoggard High School in Wilmington NC. ....I still base my chords suspensions and releases all on Stamps unique chord flavors!!!!

[@randybryant3903]

That was actually recorded by On Site Digital Engineer - David Smith.