A powerful tribute honoring America’s heroes 🇺🇸 — Perfect for the 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and more. ►If this video resonates with you, please like, comment, and share. ►Help this tribute reach more people—and honor a veteran in your life. “These Are the Stars: A Tribute to America’s Heroes” was composed by Robyn Butterfield Buttars as an expression of gratitude for America and its service members. Watch the original patriotic lyric video: https://youtu.be/cVtV4-6tiqY
The work premiered on Veterans Day 2025, performed by the American Festival Chorus and the Utah State University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Craig Jessop, with Tanner Doyle as soloist.
Arrangement and orchestration by Kurt Bestor, based on an original arrangement by Daniel Blomberg.
Dr. Jessop noted:
“‘These Are the Stars: A Tribute to America’s Heroes’ is a deeply moving and beautifully crafted work that honors our veterans with dignity, sincerity, and emotional power. From the podium, the piece is a joy to shape, and in performance it creates a powerful moment of reflection and gratitude that audiences receive with warmth and reverence.”
🔗 Learn more & resources
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📖 Read Robyn’s story:
https://www.robynbuttars.com/thesearethestars
🎵 Stream/Download the original recording:
https://bit.ly/TheseAreTheStarsSong
🎼 Sheet music (JW Pepper):
https://www.jwpepper.com/these-are-the-stars-11643721/p
– SATB/SAB and Piano
– SATB and Full Orchestra or Concert Band
– SATB with Soloist and Full Orchestra or Concert Band
🎼 Piano/Vocal sheet music:
https://www.robynbuttars.com/thesearethestars
📩 Performance & Licensing Requests:
🎼 Children’s song “Fourth of July”:
https://www.jwpepper.com/fourth-of-july-11644207/p
SPECIAL THANKS
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With deep gratitude to Dr. Craig Jessop, Utah State University, the American Festival Chorus, and Elaine Olson for their vision, leadership, and support in bringing this world premiere to life.
SONG CREDITS
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Title: These Are the Stars: A Tribute to America’s Heroes
Written by: Robyn Butterfield Buttars
Arranged and Orchestrated by: Kurt Bestor (based on arrangement by Daniel Blomberg)
Performed by: American Festival Chorus & Utah State University Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Dr. Craig Jessop
Soloist: Tanner Doyle
Recording Engineers: Eddie Myers, Ricardo Laranja
Edited, Mixed & Mastered by: Sterling Stowell
℗ © 2025 Heart Mountain Records
VIDEO CREDITS
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Produced by: Ben Fales & Robyn Buttars
Video Engineers: Eddie Myers, Ricardo Laranja
Edited by: Ben Fales
℗ © 2025 Heart Mountain Records
LYRICS
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Verse 1
In every age, throughout our land
men and women rose to take a stand:
a stand for freedom, a stand for right,
a dream protected with faith and might.
From Valley Forge to Gettysburg,
in Flanders Field their voices were heard.
Bright through it all their hope to live,
but if not so their life to give.
Chorus:
These are the stars our heroes still,
whose rightful place no one should ever fill.
Who so loved freedom that they might die
so those who live may see Old Glory fly.
Verse 2
At Normandy they served to win,
as at Heartbreak Ridge and Ho Chi Minh;
in foreign deserts, on land and sea
they stood for justice and liberty.
They left their youth while in harm’s way.
Sacrificing dreams, they faced their day.
How sure their purpose, their legacy,
protecting freedom for you, for me.
Chorus:
These are the stars our heroes still,
whose rightful place no one should ever fill.
Who so loved freedom that they might die
so those who live may see Old Glory fly.
Bridge
For yesteryear and for this time
may our nation stand with hearts aligned,
to praise their service, to place their names
beside the heroes enshrined in fame.
Chorus:
These are the stars our heroes still,
whose rightful place no one should ever fill.
Who so loved freedom that they might die
so those who live may see Old Glory fly.
See her fly.
Old Glory fly.
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