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In 1944, Stravinsky added his arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner to the program he was conducting with the Boston Symphony in an effort to foster and preserve patriotism during such difficult times. The police caught wind of the radical dominant seventh chord in the arrangement and ordered Stravinsky to pull the piece on the grounds […]

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