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Date Posted: 08:29:47 06/06/10 Sun
Author: En Pointe
Subject: Re: Star Spangled Banner
In reply to: We3Kings 's message, "Star Spangled Banner" on 15:28:56 06/05/10 Sat

Cathy:

I have to agree with you that patriotism (in whatever form people tend to see it as these days) doesn't seem to be very much in fashion. But I too love our national anthem! Musically speaking, it's a very difficult song to sing, since it has a relatively wide octave range. It's fun to hear people trying to hit that high note at athletic events. Few make, many don't! I prefer the good ole fashion version without the flourishes added by contemporary singers, which can really butcher the melody and make the song unrecognizable. Although Francis Scott Key didn't intend for his poem to be set to an old English drinking song ("To Anacreon in Heaven"), it's befitting and poetic justice, so to speak, to take an 'old boys' song from a 'gentleman's social club' to represent the anthem of the everyman, as our founders intended for the U.S.

BTW, I also love Sousa marches. Nothing more patriotic than hearing the U.S. Marine Corps Band playing a Sousa march! Also befitting, since at one point in his career, Sousa was a Marine ^_^

Love on y'all!
Joanna

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[> [> Re: Star Spangled Banner -- We3Kings, 17:09:26 06/06/10 Sun

I love Sousa--but that is because I play brass. He favors us trumpeters and euphonists! I often marched to them in parades and so forth, but when we moved to Greenville there was a station that played band music from 7am -8am.

I don't know about you, but that is the WORST time to be listening to sousa!!


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[> [> [> Re: Star Spangled Banner -- En Pointe, 19:05:39 06/06/10 Sun

He may favor brass instruments (they are the 'meat' of marching bands, after all), but he sure manages to put in some difficult stuff for us clarinetists. Lots of mundane background stuff which sounds deceptively easy ^_^ Gotta say though that I love to listen to anything upbeat in the morning. It's the only way I can actually wake up sometimes!

Here on one of the local radio channels, they play the Star Spangled Banner at 07:30 each day, just after someone calls in to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Gets me right there everytime (in the heart that is)....

Love ya!
Joanna


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