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The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the ... It sports two keyboards (called manuals), 584 individual pipes organized into eight ranks ...
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 ...
I really love to sing and was undaunted by the musical and political challenges “The Star-Spangled Banner” so famously poses. I didn’t fear showing up in video montages of national anthems gone wrong, ...
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 ...
And what if you didn't? What if, instead, we were writing about Wolfe bungling the words to The Star-Spangled Banner instead? Isn't that worse? So what if she needs the lyrics there, just in case?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 by the 40-person ensemble from the local stage ...