Music

The Officers of Columbian Lodge process in to the sound of our Organist playing "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean".  The music and lyrics were written by Thomas A. Beckett in 1843 for actor David Shaw, who tried to publish the song under his own name.  It was used on occasion as an un-official national anthem in competition with "Hail, Columbia" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" until the latter's formal adoption as the national anthem of the United States of America in 1931. 

Click here to listen to Columbia, Gem of the Ocean performed by the United States Navy Band.

The Columbian Lodge Grand March, published in an 1895 edition (The year of our Centennial) of "The Folio", is actually the very same piece as "Under The Double Eagle", composed by J.F. Wagner.

We have no further information as to how a military march composed around 1880 Austria, at any point became an official march of the lodge.