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...Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric. Even Stalin himself could no longer hold up the banner of the proletarian revolution as the hope of mankind. All he now holds is the strength of the Russian armies battling in a war that he long sneered at as "imperialistic...
...news of another Star-Spangled Banner...
Searching about for a vehicle through which I might best express my gratitude at the prospect of becoming an American citizen, I chose to harmonize and orchestrate as a national choral the beautiful sacred anthem The Star-Spangled Banner...
...version of The Star-Spangled Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians...
...tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, which has been the official national anthem for only a decade, is an old British drinking song.* It is usually played without arrangement, so that every performer "fakes" to his heart's content...