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Loras John Schissel talks about Military Music on Veterans Day

Photo:  Roger Mastroianni, courtesy of the Cleveland Orchestra
Loras John Schissel conducting the Blossom Festival Band

As we celebrate Veterans Day today on WCLV, we talk with Loras John Schissel. Senior Musicologist at the Library of Congress and conductor of the Blossom Festival Band, about the long history of music and the military