The Star-Spangled Banner - composed by Francis Scott Key, \"In Defense of Fort McHenry\" in September 1814.China Tour 2004\nCamerata of Los Angeles Orchestra&Chorus. Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt, Founder/Conductor.October 5, 2004\nTianjin TV \nTianjin, China\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \n\nThe Star-Spangled Banner\n\nOh, say, can you see, by the dawn\'s early light, \nWhat so proudly we hail\'d at the twilight\'s last gleaming? \nWhose broad stripes and brightstars, thro\' the perilous fight, \nO\'er the ramparts we watch\'d, were so gallantly streaming? \nAnd the rockets\' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, \nGave proof thro\' the night that our flag was still there. \nO say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave \nO\'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?\n\nOn the shore dimly seen thro\' the mists of the deep, \nWhere the foe\'s haughty host in dread silence reposes, \nWhat is that which the breeze, o\'er the towering steep, \nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? \n\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning\'s first beam, \nIn full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: \n\'T is the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave \nO\'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Anthem, Banner, Camerata, Chorale, Chorus, National, Orchestra, Star-Spangled, Tianjin, US