Joe Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris, a 1st will be taking place. The first piece by a woman composer to be played during the inauguration ceremony itself. The Marine Band has been playing every inauguration back through
Thomas Jefferson. Their current conductor and commander,
Col. Jason K. Fettig selected
Julie Giroux’s “Integrity Fanfare and March” to be played as Kamala Harris walks up to the podium. But as Giroux told me the evening before the ceremony, her memory needed to be jogged.
Jamie Paisley: When it comes to the piece itself, the Integrity Fanfare and March, that was about 15 years ago. Have you revisited just mentally [Giroux laughs] Cause I mean, that was a long time ago, still.