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The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: Stephen Horsfall Date: July 12, 2023, 7:48 am |
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https://youtu.be/XWtmBWMArl0 |
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Re: The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: Gregory Date: July 12, 2023, 10:53 am |
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I've always disliked this overblown patriotic anthem from the |
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French Revolution composed by Rouget de Lisle while heads were |
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being lopped off and the first modern dictator, Napoleon, was |
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waiting in the wings, setting in motion the mechanics of all |
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revolutions. |
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I'll go for what I've always considered should be our own |
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national anthem, I Vow To Thee My Country, here in a |
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goose-pimple raising version from the Festival of Remembrance: |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQV3O50xiA |
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Re: The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: Stephen Horsfall Date: July 12, 2023, 12:40 pm |
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Well, we'll have to disagree about La Marseillaise, though I |
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must admit that some of the words, considered soberly and apart |
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from the music, are a bit iffy. |
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I agree about "I Vow to Thee...", though: I too would vote for |
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it for a replacement national anthem. Here's another version: |
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https://youtu.be/iCkGnQ0AZv0 |
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Re: The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: gwinnie Date: July 12, 2023, 2:41 pm |
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Have to agree, I Vow To Thee is a beautiful song, set to sublime |
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music. It makes GSTK sound clunky. |
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Re: The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: Gregory Date: July 12, 2023, 3:03 pm |
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Yes, that's an excellent version. |
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Let's bear in mind that La Marseillaise is an |
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ultra-nationalistic, militant call to arms. 'I Vow To Thee My |
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Country' is certainly patriotic but the message is essentially |
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peaceful, especially the last verse, which is basically |
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Christian. What's risible about pompous French nationalism is |
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that they've lost every battle and war since Napoleon's defeat |
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at Waterloo in 1815: the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, almost the |
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First World War in 1917, the swift shameful German conquest of |
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1940 (not much "Allons enfants de la patrie" there), the |
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humiliating defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 at the |
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hands of the Viet Minh insurgents and the loss of the Algerian |
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War in 1962. So much for 'La gloire'. The fact is that France |
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has been Britain's ancestral enemy for centuries (Hundred Years |
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War, Agincourt, Louis XIV's wars, etc. etc.), which only changed |
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with the rise of German nationalism in the twentieth century as |
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a common foe. |
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By the way, Rouget de Lisle (the composer of La Marseillaise) |
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almost went to the guillotine at the height of the Revolution |
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but was spared due to his composition. He later died in abject |
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poverty. |
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Re: The world's most stirring national anthem |
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By: guest15 Date: July 12, 2023, 4:51 pm |
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Another vote here for IVTTMY. |
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