Archives for July 4, 2011

To hear Harry Reasoner report the death of Ernest Hemingway on CBS Radio, go here.
Radio has changed a lot since 1961, hasn’t it?

John Philip Sousa introduces a 1931 performance of “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” played by Sousa’s Band and conducted by the composer:

…Robert Casadesus plays Debussy’s “Fireworks”:

“A man who loves humanity and ignores patriotism is ignoring humanity.”
G.K. Chesterton, “The Patriotic Idea”