Whenever the National Symphony Orchestra opens a concert this year, one work will always be on the program. “The Star-Spangled Banner” will now open each performance, Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell said on Oct. 10.
“The National Symphony should be playing the National Anthem,” Grenell, a special envoy in the current administration and former acting director of national intelligence, said in a statement.
A Kennedy Center insider told The Epoch Times that the move marks a first for the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center. Two other orchestras—the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra—regularly perform the anthem….