FACTUAL RIDDLES XL

From Reader's Digest
Harold C. Schonberg (adapted)


Music, it is said, is an international language. It really isn't, and most Westerners can no sooner identify with the subtleties of Chinese or Japanese music than listeners from the Far East - previously unexposed to the three B's - can identify with Beethoven's Ninth. But there is one piece of Western music that seems to leap over ethnic and geographical boundaries and have an electrifying effect on audiences across the world. What is it?

Answer:

"The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa