Re: Fwd: stew

On 2025-05-03, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-03 8:21 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-05-03 10:04 a.m., Mike Duffy wrote:

On 2025-05-03, BryanGSimmons wrote:
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Everybody fucks up the US anthem.  The only times I've heard it sung
well in this century was several times on opening weekend of the StL
Symphony, when the audience joins the orchestra.

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I forget her name, but the best I heard was an opera singer. (USA)
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The Canadian one I cannot sing anymore because they changed
the words *3* fucking times in my memory and always fall
back to what we sang as youngsters and get out of sync &c.
>

 
 
I avoid the confusion by singing it in French. IMO anthems are no long
anthems when thy change them. The last change was especially annoying. I
thought if it was really important to have new words they could have
altered one of the other verses instead of the one everyone seems to
think is the only one.

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I detest ALL national anthems!

I can't quite bring myself to care about national anthems. 

It would be nice if ours was singable by people with no practice in
singing.  Standards have fallen appallingly since the 18th Century.
At least La Marseillaise encompasses little more than a single octave.
The Star Speckled Binger is an octave and a fifth.

--
Cindy Hamilton