St. Vincent provided one of the rare high ... hit all the tricky high notes of the notoriously hard-to-sing "Star-Spangled Banner," and even though she had her trusty signature electric guitar ...
His “Star-Spangled Banner” is a throwback to Puritan times ... Stravinsky arrived in St. Louis to conduct his arrangement for the first time on Dec. 15, 1941 — the week after Pearl Harbor.
The occasion was the celebration of her 35 th anniversary as organist at the Cathedral, now officially known as the Cathedral Basilica of St. John ... to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner ...