Then there was the time when Igor Stravinsky, newly emigrated to America, was in Boston and conducted his own "progressive" arrangement of the “The Star-Spangled Banner" at a BSO concert in Symphony Hall. It caused such a controversy that the police threatened to arrest him if he repeated it.
Then there was the time when Igor Stravinsky, newly emigrated to America, was in Boston and conducted his own "progressive" arrangement of the “The Star-Spangled Banner" at a BSO concert in Symphony Hall. It caused such a controversy that the police threatened to arrest him if he repeated it.
Then there was the time when Igor Stravinsky, newly emigrated to America, was in Boston and conducted his own "progressive" arrangement of the “The Star-Spangled Banner" at a BSO concert in Symphony Hall. It caused such a controversy that the police threatened to arrest him if he repeated it.