Bound For Glory

Grade Level 2

Year: 2024

Composer: American Spiritual, arr. William Himes 

Program Notes:

Listeners are invited to board this imaginary train departing from the station and go on a brief musical journey-complete with “conductor” and several sound effects. The theme is the well-known American Spiritual: 

This train is bound for glory, this train. (repeat) 

This train is bound for glory, if you ride you must be holy, 

This train is bound for glory, this train. 

American Instrumental Ensemble Series (AIES/ABES)

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