For the state funeral of former president Ronald Reagan, NBC chose this solemn piece composed by Michael Karp. It’s called Requiem. Tom Brokaw anchored, in what was one of his last major broadcasts as NBC’s lead anchor before stepping down as anchor of Nightly News.
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Network News Music is a website by Victor Vlam, who holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of news music. 1,876 hours, 2 minutes and 52 seconds. News music is rarely heard without voice-overs or fade outs to commercial, yet it leaves an impact on many people. Founded in 2002, this site is a museum for TV news themes past and present.
In my late 60’s now; and come to this site so thankful to partake of such a beautifully written and performed work. As most all of us that were around then will easily remember, President Reagan was an is a tribute to a time in our national history that reflected honor, compassion, empathy & goodness; as we acknowledge “the passing” of even those “traits” into this world of today that is so needful of all that is now gone.