Dear Star Spangled Music Foundation:Thank you so very much for your tremendous work on the bicentennial of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Your website, music and videos, articles, ideas, logo, etc… and etc… were extremely beneficial as my fellow teachers and I planned lessons on the singing and significance of the anthem for our PreK-eighth grade…
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Star Spangled Music Day Report—New York Public Library Exhibit Opening
In celebration of Star Spangled Music Day, the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts hosted Metropolitan Opera star Susanne Mentzer who helped open an exhibit in the third floor reading room. Ms. Mentzer performed the anthem and engaged in a discussion with Music Division Chief George Boziwick. A video…
Star Spangled Music Day Report—North Carolina
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…
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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A Banner Arrangement for Beginning Band
T. J. Wolfgram, a University of Michigan graduate, who is now the band director at University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, as well as a member of the 338th U.S. Army Reserve Band, has created a new arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the Star Spangled Music Edition. While musicians early in their…
Interview with Ruben Bolton—Singer & F.S. Key Reenactor
How did you become interested in Francis Scott Key as a songwriter? My girls used to ask me to sing “O say can you see” as a bedtime song. I worked up the first verse in a minor key and liked how it sounded. The dark tone seemed to fit the two questions of verse…
Report on "The Fort & the Flag" by George Armistead
A Musical Journey to the Battle of Baltimore for High School Choir by John Reim Immanuel Lutheran High School A composition for SATB choir and baritone solo, with optional accompaniment. Goals and Objectives Describe the learning outcomes and/or goals. To provide, in a musical setting, some of the original context for the composing of the…
Physical Education—Colonial Dance Lesson
Students will learn a colonial dance from 1814 when The Star-Spangled Banner was written. Students will first watch several videos of children performing colonial dances and then learn the dances. Students can perform the dances in their Physical Education classes or as a part of the school assembly. Lesson: 1. Discuss with students that they…