Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)
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Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)
In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939–40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted the Boston Symphony and, on one famous occasion, he decided to conduct his own arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which he made out of a “desire to do my bit in …
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