The Star Spangled Banner sung by Sandi Patty.
In its entirety.
I've heard it sung in its entirety before, including in the 19th century style, with period instruments accompanying, but Sandi Patty sings it in a way I've never heard it sung before, accompanied by very powerful, and moving images.
I've just listened to it as fireworks are going off outside my window.
Absolutely Awesome! ;-D
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Flag draped from the roof of the Pentagon
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause 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!
Interested in the history, with more links than you will know what to do with, and in hearing 2 versions sung in 1915, and 1942, plus an instrumental version from 1953?
After studying music in Philadelphia and appearing with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine, Watts gained a wider audience when he made his television debut in a nationally televised concert with the New York Philharmonic in 1963 at the tender age of sixteen. 
Considering the period, and the cultural upheavals going on, especially in America, both must have been quite the events. 
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