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If you would like to get Open Culture post’s via email, please sign up for our free email newsletter here.Īnd if you would like to support the mission of Open Culture, consider making a donation to our site. Despite the mythology created around this event, Stravinsky was never arrested.
The Youtube video features an apocryphal mugshot of Stravinsky. You can hear Stravinsky’s “Star-Spangled Banner” above, apparently performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. (They were misreading the statute.) Grudgingly, Stravinsky pulled it from the bill. And the Boston police, not exactly an organization with avant-garde sensibilities, issued Stravinsky a warning, claiming there was a law against tampering with the national anthem. As you might expect, Stravinsky’s version on “The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t entirely conventional, seeing that it added a dominant seventh chord to the arrangement.