From Angela Stefanini, Charlotte Preparatory SchoolI’ve been teaching the history of the Star Spangled Banner since I began teaching music in 1997. I’ve been waiting patiently for its 200th birthday celebration in order to have a huge ordeal at my school. Proudly, we cast a major event for its bicentennial.We had a fantastic celebration yesterday…
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Star Spangled Music Day Report—Meridian, MS
Our class celebrated the Star Spangled Banner today. We have been studying the history of the banner- song and flag- for several weeks. Today’s celebration and singing of the Star Spangled Banner were special because we are a new choir– our Highschool is trying to get a chorus program back into the school and we…
Happy Star-Spangled Music Day!
It’s Finally Here!!! Thanks to schools and institutions from across the nation that are celebrating the 200th birthday weekend of “The Star-Spangled Banner” — the national anthem of the United States of America. Schools in Baltimore in the East, San Antonio in the South, Los Angeles in the West, and Beaver Island, Michigan in the…
Banner Moment #8: 16 October 1968—Protest Salute during Olympic Medal Ceremony (Critical Patriotism)
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Banner Moment #7—March 3, 1931—Key's Song Made Official U.S. Anthem by Congress
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Star Spangled Music Day Photo Contest
Send pics of your Star Spangled Music Day celebration to info@starspangledmusic.org or post them to our Facebook Page. Submit by September 22, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. for a chance to win copies of our Poets & Patriots commemorative CDs. Ten schools will be selected at random and will receive two free copies, one for the…
Banner Moment #6: Jan. 8, 1917—Key's Song Named "National Anthem" of U.S. Military
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Banner Moments #5: Holmes Adds Civil War Verse to Anthem
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Proudly We Hail! MMB #Anthem200 Halftime Show
RED, WHITE & “GO BLUE!” (Click Here to View Video of the Show) U-M TO HOST ONE OF NATION’S BIGGEST CELEBRATIONS FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM’S 200th BIRTHDAY Michigan Marching Band to perform half-time extravaganza in celebration of “The Star Spangled Banner” bicentennial September 13, 2014, (Ann Arbor, MI) – The University of Michigan will be home…
Seven Surprising Star-Spangled Facts
Key had a father who fought in George Washington’s Continental Army, but an uncle who was a British loyalist. Key was deeply religious and had considered a career as a minister instead of a lawyer. Key and his wife Mary (aka. Polly) had 11 kids. Key inherited a family plantation as well as slaves. He…