Would YOU stand for the National Anthem?

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  • Mary Chambers
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1963

    #46
    There's no need to believe in words you sing. Singers would have endless problems if they had to.

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    • Richard Tarleton

      #47
      Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
      TBH I have no interest in those either.
      So no comment on when the penalties for nonconformity might be unpleasant or possibly fatal, Richard?

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #48
        Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
        how many H v K fans will admit to having the following in their collection:

        https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthems-Alb...rt+von+karajan
        I would, if I had it - it no doubt provides several minutes of armchair listening.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Richard Barrett
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          • Jan 2016
          • 6259

          #49
          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          I would, if I had it - it no doubt provides several minutes of armchair listening.
          Well, you could use it to make a weird kind of electronic composition where you'd make collages out of all the anthems, distort them, stretch them out to many times their original duration, and then you could mix in some spoken snippets from your studio sessions, and maybe some breathing and why not also a croupier for that surreal finishing touch... but anything like that would probably have to be taken sitting down.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #50
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • pastoralguy
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              • Nov 2010
              • 7749

              #51
              I've always prided myself on my musical memory and my ability to identify a piece of music with seconds of hearing it. (Obviously, providing I know it in the first place!) Alas, it's diminishing a bit as I get older but it's still pretty intact.

              I've always intended to really test this 'ability' by attempting to learn all the National Anthems but it's really hard! There are so many that it's hard to become familiar with them since it's hardly music I'm hearing on a daily basis. Maybe, once I've retired, I'll try again.

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              • Richard Tarleton

                #52
                #41
                #47


                Much easier in liberal democracies where the worst that can happen to you is that you might be thought rude or disobliging. So far the only jeopardy anyone has faced is described in vinteuil's post.

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                • Padraig
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                  • Feb 2013
                  • 4234

                  #53
                  Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                  Well, you could use it to make a weird kind of electronic composition where you'd make collages out of all the anthems, distort them, stretch them out to many times their original duration, and then you could mix in some ...
                  Ah.

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30262

                    #54
                    Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                    This one refuses to stand for any national anthem anywhere.
                    That might be preferable to nodding your head and occasionally moving your lips slightly to Hen Wlad fy Nhadau . (I won't post it )
                    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                    • Richard Barrett
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                      • Jan 2016
                      • 6259

                      #55
                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      (I won't post it )
                      Oh go on.

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16122

                        #56
                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        That might be preferable to nodding your head and occasionally moving your lips slightly to Hen Wlad fy Nhadau . (I won't post it )
                        Ah, yes; Mr Sequoia, IIRC?...

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          #57
                          Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                          Oh go on.
                          Why? Don't you know it by heart already?

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            #58
                            Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                            Sequoia
                            Almost what I would have said to him at the time.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • vinteuil
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12801

                              #59
                              Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                              ... how many H v K fans will admit to having the following in their collection:

                              https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthems-Alb...rt+von+karajan
                              There does seem to be an awful sameness about these anthems. I mean, do you think the composers of Cameroun's national anthem ("Ô Cameroun berceau de nos ancêtres") might just perchance have heard of the Marseillaise? -

                              Hymne national du Cameroun chanté par Jacques-Greg Belobo, à l'occasion du cinquantenaire du Foyer du marin, Akwa-Douala.


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                              • ahinton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 16122

                                #60
                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Almost what I would have said to him at the time.
                                !!!

                                You'd have been considerably more polite than me, then!...

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