Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...

President-elect Donald Trump selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at Monday’s inauguration ...

His “Star-Spangled Banner” is a throwback to Puritan times ... Isabel Morse Jones wrote that Stravinsky “made the words and melody easier to sing — but duller to listen to.” ...

The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of 1812. The words describe a battle. With a fleet of warships in Baltimore Harbor ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

The first verse of the poem, Defence of Fort M'Henry, later became known as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, which officially became the national anthem of the United States in 1931.

Watch it here: Pentatonix Performs the National Anthem Social media reactions to the group’s crunchy harmonies came flooding in, with one viewer saying: “I’ve never heard a rendition of The ...