Leading off with “The Star-Spangled Banner” played by the Palisades Charter High School Band, then “Kauyumari” by Gabriellla Ortiz, a composer I now love but never knew until Gustavo ...

The organist and composer John Stafford Smith was given the job of creating ... later reprinted by the Carr’s Music Store in Baltimore under the title The Star-Spangled Banner—and the name stuck. The ...

It’s a song every American has heard countless times, but how much do you really know about our national anthem?

But his collection of fragments from the Star-Spangled Banner—one red swatch, one white—made him feel less like a have than a have-not. A friend possessed a blue scrap, and, without one for ...

John Clayton Barnett was born on April 17, 1943 in Champaign County, Illinois to Jack and Mary (Manny). He left this Earth on March 11, 2025 after passing away peacefully in his sleep in ...

There were scattered but audible boos from the sold-out crowd at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Thursday as the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was sung ... Blue Jays manager John Schneider, who is ...

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - In a switch from the norm at recent sporting events across Canada, not a single boo could be heard during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Sunday morning at the ...

Betsy Wolfe, a Broadway actress and singer, was tapped to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the game began. But Wolfe’s rendition appeared to raise eyebrows for the wrong reasons as fans ...

Wolfe has previously been nominated for a Tony award but her performance of The Star-Spangled Banner on Thursday was branded 'embarrassing' and even 'the worst' of all time. Fans spotted that ...

With the Orioles in town for opening day Thursday, the Blue Jays played both “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” for the sold-out crowd and the former was greeted with a chorus of ...