It’s easy to mess up. “The Star-Spangled Banner” will open many a celebration on July 4th. But as numerous social media videos show, the national anthem can be a trap for singers. It requires a wide ...

Most hard-to-sing songs span just one octave range, like a low D to a high D,” Puth displays on a whiteboard, providing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Closing Time” as relevant examples. “The ...

“The Star Spangled Banner” has long been derided as a poor choice for our national anthem. Critics cite it as difficult to sing, difficult to understand, and most often, difficult to love. It has been ...

On September 13th, 1814, lawyer and poet Francis Scott Key was negotiating the release of American prisoners aboard a British ship when he became a prisoner, himself. Held through the night, he ...