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Ok,football season is back ! Does anyone else fail to see the reason why it
is necessary to use this "check your ego at the door,show of respect & thanks" event, into just another personal(& others)"commercial" ?
Are "Pop Artists" really that insecure that they need to show off their "Musical Chops" by "Stylizing"their singing of the NA ? Really ?????
Where is the respect from the singer ? Maybe it's time to examine whether or not performers realize they are there to "serve" this "music" & no other reason.(Hint; It's not a "song",it's an Anthem. look up what that means on Wikipedia)
C'mon do we really have to be subjected to this "garbage" thinking ? Persons should be "singing" not "performing" the National Anthem,or there is no reason to continue this pratice before events!
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A professor at the University of Michigan organized a symposium on the 200th anniversary of our National Anthem.
Below is the anthem as originally scored in 1814. The tempo is noticeably faster than usually taken today. There are also some minor differences in the rhythm. According to the professor's research, the anthem was meant to be performed by one person with an ensemble singing the refrain.
It's important to remember that IT'S A SHOW, and that most people have ZERO musical taste. Feed them whatever - they'll eat it.
Personally, I'm not holding my breath waiting for the day when the stadium crowd "boos" the singer. Heck, even totally abysmal Rosanne Barr was applauded. That's where we are in our societal "development".
:)
is this Stravinsky version.
This should be played more often. :)Per Wikipedia:
"Stravinsky's unconventional major-minor seventh chord in his arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" led to an incident with the Boston police on 15 January 1944, and he was warned that the authorities could impose a $100 fine upon any "rearrangement of the national anthem in whole or in part"."
Edits: 09/09/14
thanks, including the quote about the boston police's warning of a different arrangement - not that one would notice.
roger wang
'Happy Birthday' by Stravinsky.
Believe this was written for Moneux's 80th Birthday as a Greeting Prelude.
Thanks for posting that! I've never heard it before.
Was anybody here at the One O'clock Lab Band concert in Sherman, TX back in 2010? Denis DiBlasio improvised an awesome flute/scat version of Happy Birthday in tribute to the great Maynard Ferguson. I hope someone has a recording of it.
:)
The way they sing the national anthem surely isn't the only thing that makes you flinch in televised sports? To me, the singing is one of the least repugnant aspects of the sports business. There is a reason the anthem is being sung the way we hear it being sung, anything less would be sort of hypocritical IMO.
Edits: 09/06/14
Here ya go:
For some reason singer''s who also normally play an instrument don't seem to have the same insecurities about having to using vocal "ornamentations" when singing music that is basically straightforwardly written (although vocal range challenging)
(I'll never forget the short film I once saw of Whitney Houston working with a vocal coach that gave her this "musically disgusting" phrasing he wanted her to use. If the music can't "stand"
on it's own values I don't see the point of it. Crap is still crap no matter how you try to arrange
it. Prove to me you understand "musical sensitivity" then you can implement ornamentation.)
Perhaps most pop singers just aren't good enough to sing it straight and stylize it partly to hide their inadequacies.
I am not a singer but, it seems to me, that almost everyone who tries has problems with the range so the vocal 'styling' is used to cover the problem (maybe someone can say authoritatively whether the NA really is that difficult). It also doesn't help that audiences think this is a good thing and start whooping before the end, which devalues it.
Pretty much all National Anthems that I've heard at international sporting events are nondescript. The US NA could be a good one if people sang it straight. IMHO the best is La Marseillaise, which has a good tune and I find stiring (though I'm not French).
Le_DoW
"Perhaps most pop singers just aren't good enough to sing it straight and stylize it partly to hide their inadequacies."
If they can't sing straight into a mike, they aren't a singer. They are a fraud.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
How about NASCAR's opening commercial prayer?
The remote fixes a lot of things.
this.
You are'nt seriously trying to compare Ray Charles (who I don't think anyone would question his integrity & was just being "Ray Charles") with "Pop Artists" of no Iconic stature
were you ?
Of course there've been plenty of rotten versions of national anthems sung by pop stars and "celebrities" all over the world. So what? What's your idea, have versions vetted by.............you?
Nobody knows which singer/group will come up with a personalized version of an iconic tune or anthem that many people find stirring, just as Ray did with America The Beautiful. Being someone with "iconic stature" - whatever the hell that means - has zilch to do with singing ability or tasteful creativity. I've heard plenty of very good stylized versions of Star Bangled Banner - sung from the heart - that take some liberties but convey the patriotic emotions inherent in the anthem and then some.
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