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Taps Bugler: Jari Villanueva

Star-Spangled Banner Events

  This week will be an exciting one as I am involved with many events surrounding the 200th Anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner which was…

Norton-A Civil War Opera

An Opera based on the life of Oliver Willcox Norton, the first bugler to sound Taps. Commissioned by Loudoun Lyric Opera Company in honor of…

2013 in Review

  Happy 2014! Well, we ended last year’s holiday letter by saying we hoped 2013 wouldn’t be as busy as 2012, but if anything it…

Taps for Vince

  TAPS FOR VINCE by Stan Mays Two men in stiff military uniforms impatiently waited in the hallway outside my seventh-grade band class. They alternately looked…

The Kennedy presidency Jean Shepherd

The original November 25, 1963 evening radio broadcast by Jean Shepherd of WOR radio. The legendary broadcaster spent 45 minutes talking about the impact of…

Taps for JFK Friday Nov 22

  The Newseum in Washington, DC has asked me to sound Taps this Friday at 2:38 PM, the time of the announcement of the death…

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