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...British lion, awkward of late, last fortnight clumped his way into a minor diplomatic mess. Until recently the British Government forbade the playing of the Russian anthem, the Internationale...
Fact was that the vaunted British Civil Service had bungled again. The instructions lifting the ban on the Russian anthem had been sent to the wrong department, so that when the Guards' Band had inquired whether to honor the Russian mission with the Russian anthem, the right department had said...
...What the anthem still needed most was not new harmonies but a singable melody. (A streamlined, octave-cheating version by Bandleader Vincent Lopez had failed to catch on.) Best way to sing The Star-Spangled Banner is still the conventional...
Russian Igor Stravinsky reharmonized the English tune which Congress in 1931 made the U.S. national anthem. Stravinsky's Russianized version of The Star-Spangled Banner is muscular and musicianly, but audiences don't like it too well. Last week Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony played first its standard arrangement, then Stravinsky's caviar-spangled version, asked the audience to vote its preference. Result: 203 for, 351 against Stravinsky...
Geraldine Farrar composed, directed and designed costumes for a Girl Scout Christmas pageant at Ridgefield, Conn. She also wrote a poem, The Christmas Donkey, led the singing of the national anthem...