A mugshot of composer and conductor, Igor Stravinsky after his arrest on April 15, 1940 in Boston for an unauthorized chord!
He had created an orchestral arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner which used an unconventional major 7th chord. He seems to have violated a little known and up until then unenforced Federal law that prohibited the reharmonization of the anthem.
I guess no one ever tried to turn in Jimi Hendrix.
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Now listen to Hendrix's version of the anthemn...it was live, loud and bloody...but absolutely brilliant.
He managed to put all of the nobility and all of the brutality of America into that piece.
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