As Republicans take the Senate by storm, the Vermont Independent - one of the most progressive voices in the Senate - is taking note.
On this day in 1854, legendary marching band composer John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C.
Today also happens to be the birthday of Here & Now‘s Robin Young, so to celebrate the dual occasion we listened to some Sousa favorites with longtime Sousa lover Keith Brion, founder and director of the New Sousa Band.
According to Brion,”Harold Schonberg, who used to be a music critic for the New York Times, thought ["The Stars and Stripes Forever"] was the most perfect piece of American music ever written.”
“The Stars and Stripes Forever” was voted by Congress as America’s official National March.