Fallon’s Jim Falk, who was assigned to the Pacific Stars and Stripes in the 1960s for three years, attended the afternoon event. Air Force at the time, said he relied on the newspaper for the sports from San Francisco, and he enjoyed the comics. During the 1960s, Stafford, who served in U.S.
He said Stars and Stripes became the primary news source for military personnel serving overseas. “We had heard word of it (the Pueblo capture) before it hit the newspapers.” Other headlines called out to Stafford the assassinations of both Bobby and John F. Stafford is president of the Sierra Nevada Chapter 989 Vietnam Veterans of America “I was doing duty at Da Nang Air base,” said Stafford, who recently attended the 160th birthday at the National Auto Museum in Reno for Stars and Stripes. Near the time when the bloody Tet Offensive began in Vietnam in early 1968, North Korean forces captured the naval intelligence spy ship. Stafford’s attention when he surveyed the various newspapers. A headline announcing the capture of the Navy’s USS Pueblo in late January 1968 grabbed J.R. News from various wars and stateside tragedies blared out with big headlines and snappy subheads. Different issues of Stars and Stripes, an independent military newspaper distributed to the troops overseas, covered several tables in two rows. Kay’s work also includes a children’s record, Mother Goose. A composer in his own right, Hershy Kay also reconstructed Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Grande Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra, which later became the Balanchine ballet Tarantella. His works for ballet include Cakewalk, Clowns, Western Symphony, The Concert, Stars and Stripes, Who Cares?, and Union Jack his works for musical theater include Peter Pan, Once Upon a Mattress, Candide, A Chorus Line, Evita, and Barnum. Hershy Kay (1919-1981) established himself as a preeminent orchestrator of musicals with Leonard Bernstein’s On The Town in 1944. A Sousa concert usually consisted of 25 to 36 pieces, one of which was, inevitably, The Stars and Stripes Forever. In 1880, at the age of 25, he became the leader of the United States Marine Band, a post he held for over 12 years. In 1876 he joined Offenbach’s orchestra at the centennial exposition in Philadelphia. He enlisted as an apprentice in the Marine Band in 1868, serving for almost seven years. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), the “March King,” was an important figure in the history of American bands and American band music. LaGuardia, mayor of New York City and founder of the City Center of Music and Drama. The ballet is dedicated to the memory of Fiorello H. Johnson, and the opening ceremonies for the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. Stars and Stripes has been performed for many memorable occasions, including Nelson Rockefeller’s inauguration as governor of New York, tributes for Presidents John F. When asked why he chose to choreograph a ballet to Sousa’s marches, Balanchine replied: “Because I like his music.” The fourth campaign is a pas de deux, variations, and coda set to the “Liberty Bell” and “El Capitan” marches. The work is divided into five “campaigns,” each of which uses different Sousa themes. For all its exuberant patriotic touches, Stars and Stripes contains as much pure dancing as many full-length classical ballets.
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