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The music programming is a collaboration between the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The Marine Band Director, Colonel Michael J. Colburn, programs the pre-ceremony music. Ceremonial music played during the swearing-in ceremony is dictated by military protocol.
