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Igor Stravinsky, arrested for "tampering" with the Star Spangled Banner, 1940

Neil Gaiman sez, “In 1940 Igor Stravinsky re-orchestrated ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ for the Boston Symphony. Someone alerted the Boston police, who arrived at Symphony Hall, confiscated the instrumental parts to the Stravinsky orchestration and arrested Stravinsky for ‘tampering with public property.'”

Stravinsky mugshot

(Thanks, Neil!)

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