BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — For two minutes on that September evening 30 years ago, a pair of musicians took center stage at Camden Yards, the world watching, to perform a national anthem that originated in Baltimore.
Bruce Hornsby walked out to his piano alongside Branford Marsalis, saxophone in hand, in front of nearly 50,000 anxious people, including baseball’s commissioner, the President of the United States and, most important of all, the Orioles’ shortstop.
The occasion was a joyous one, but Hornsby and Marsalis’ rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was slow and sad and strangely perfect…