francisco nunez, to conduct the black national anthem, "lift every voice and sing.", if you're going to collect and interpret american music, you have to have jazz. and so what i'd like to do for you all today is introduce our orchestra in residence. they are going to help us celebrate the year 1931. this is a very important year. not just because kings were popular, with cotton drug and big bands and legendary band leaders like duke ellington and others, also because 1931 is the year "the star spangled banner" was adopted as our national anthem. don't say we didn't learn anything about the program we had today. here is the smithsonian jazz orchestra, charlie young, performing for you a jazz classic from that year, 1931. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ snoes ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we want to thank francisco nunez so much for conducting. i got the opportunity to hang out with him earlier today and yesterday and he really is amazing and we really appreciate him coming, so please give him another hand, if you will. yes. [ applause ] and also, you guys, we have some stage who have been brav

francisco nunez, to conduct the black national anthem, lift up your voice and sing. ♪ ♪ lift up yourthe slaughtered ♪ ♪ out from the gloomy past till now we stand at last ♪ ♪ where the white gleam of our bright star is cast ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ god of our weary years god of our silent tears ♪ ♪ thou who has brought us thus far on the way ♪ qyñ has by thy might led us into the light ♪ ♪ keep us foreverñr in the path we pray ♪ ♪ lest our feet stray from the places our god where we met thee ♪ ♪ lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world forget thee ♪ ♪ shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand ♪ ♪ to our god true to our native land ♪ ♪ amen [ applause ] >> thank you so much, everyone. it's truly great to come together in song with such amazing performances. here at the national museum of american history, we have our own very rich and musical collection. prince's guitar. tito fuentes' drum. several stradivarius strings are all in our collection. and those collections and performances represent all genres and eras of american music. of course, if you're going to collect and interpret amer