On 23 Feb 2007 at 17:12, Brian Williams wrote: > At Disneyland, the trumpet players play "Retreat" after the color > guard takes the rope from the pole, then the band plays the National > Anthem while the flag is lowered. I believe this is consistent with > Military protocol.
This is the way we did it at Illinois Boys' State for the 15 years I was assistant music director. And, of course, our National Anthem was always preceded with a canon blast. ;) I recall, though, that there was some agreement that we were actually not doing it entirely correctly, though I don't recall the details. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
