Remember the last time you heard the "Star-Spangled Banner" at a sports event? There's a good chance it was pretty bizarre, jazzed up in some way. I can understand the motivation for this: the song is played at every such event, so it's ubiquitous in our culture. Any artist is going to want to personalize it a bit. But usually the results are, as Tom Friedman might say, suboptimal.
Think about that when you read this story from 1940: Stravinsky Arrested for Rearrangement of National Anthem.
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so beautiful. i thought it was a joke at first. Its just so hard to believe.
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