Baseball and The Star-Spangled-Banner It is performed at the start of every professional sports contest. Played by instrumentalists or sung by vocalists, it has become…
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The 4th Annual sounding of Taps during the National Moment of Remembrance on Memorial Day at 3 p.m. TAPS ACROSS AMERICA 2023 Registration is open…
Taps Vs. The Last PostA look at two iconic bugle calls Of all the bugle signals sounded in the world, the two that stand out…
It has been custom, when welcoming a visitor of high profile, that musical honors are paid to the person’s rank or status and to the…
This is the hollywood re-creation of a scene that happened at Pearl Harbor. Ship musicians of the USS Nevada were playing the “Star Spangled Banner”…
The Menace of Mechanical MusicJohn Philip Sousa Originally published in Appleton’s Magazine, Vol. 8 (1906), pp. 278-284. SWEEPING across the country with the speed of…
Are you waiting for that lightning bolt? One of my favorite sayings is “A lightning bolt will come down from the heavens” This is a…
HONORING THE DOUGHBOYSTAPS AT THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL Taps is sounded each day at 5 pm at the New National World War I…
