Legislators say the state song is hard to sing, and doesn’t exactly inspire listeners to turn up the volume. A resolution is in the works to get a new arrangement across the airwaves. The current song ...

As a young state legislator, Nigh orchestrated a dramatic presentation featuring a Broadway star and a college choir to persuade the legislature to replace the existing state song. Nigh used the story ...

Russ Diamond has written you a song. You and 13 million other Pennsylvanians who have been living under the pall of an official commonwealth anthem so dull and uninspiring, critics say, it demands a ...

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