Everybody knows that “The Star-Spangled Banner” boldly proclaims that our flag flies over the land of the free and the home of the brave. But in Francis Scott Key’s original 1814 manuscript for our ...

The title of Ephrata Cloister chorus’ latest piece, “Rose-Lilie-Blume,” sounds like a joyous welcome to spring. Actually, the lyrics call for the end of days. For the chorus’s singers, the piece poses ...

ANNAPOLIS — When it comes to the official song “Maryland, My Maryland,” state lawmakers are ready to sing a different tune — specifically, one that incorporates fewer secessionist elements of the Free ...

Bob Dylan’s new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, is sold as two discs: nine songs on one CD and one song on the other. It wasn’t necessary to divide them up this way; all 10 songs will fit on a standard ...

In an apparent attack at the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said important stanzas of the national song “Vande Mataram” were dropped in 1937 which sowed the seeds of partition and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday recited extracts from Vande Mataram that carry religious connotations and alleged that the Congress’s adoption of only the first two stanzas as the national song ...

150 Years of ‘Vande Mataram’: A major political flashpoint has erupted on the 150th anniversary of India’s National Song. The BJP has trained its guns on the Congress, blaming Jawaharlal Nehru for ...

CHENNAI: One hundred and fifty years after it was written, Vande Mataram, the battle cry of the freedom movement and India’s national song, has once again returned to the centre of a political storm.