You are obviously more patriotic in the US! I rather like Stravinsky's
version.
So far all I have done to celebrate the Jubilee is to watch a bit of the
boat procession on the tele. It was pouring with rain all day yesterday.
They are going to broadcast the service from St. Pauls tomorrow which should
be worth watching. I remember the Coronation well - we didn't have a tele
in 1962 and we went to my auntie' s house to watch it. For those of us in
the developed world the last 60 years have been pretty good but there is no
guaranteeing it will last. Enjoy it whilst you can.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "A. J. Ness" <[email protected]>
To: "WALSH STUART" <[email protected]>; "Lutelist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 10:44 PM
Subject: [LUTE] OT Anthems (was) Re: unusual combination: lute and
stylophone
Are the lutenist and stylophonist out of jail yet?
Stravinsky's arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner was on display this
season in Symphony Hall (next to the autograph of the Symphony of Psalms).
He didn't get arrested, but didn't
perform his arranngement at the next concert, either. Boston police are
said to have visted him backstage before the repeat of the concert. At the
time according Massachusetts law, it was a crime to deface or parody the
national
anthem. The famous Boston PD mug shot with this YouTube performance is
unknown (the date is wrong for his version of the
anthem--1944). It may be a hoax. Or a Stravinsky look-alike. Here is
Stravinsky's version performed at
a safe distance from Boston by the London SO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHYCqFfpNGQ
In WW_I BSO Music Director Karl Muck was jailed and interned for a year
for
NOT playing the national anthem. He didn't know it was on the out-of-town
program. Omitting it was falsely taken as evidence of his loyalty to
Germany (he was
Swiss).
The Queen's Jubilee is also being celebrated today at 2 pm in Boston near
the Old State House, where Elizabeth spoke from the balcony in 1976. But
the
Declaration of Independence was read 200 years before from the same
balcony.
(I wonder if she was aware that she was also looking down on the site of
the
Boston Massacre.)
To celebrate the Jubilee, Charlotte and I are having Coronation Chicken
for
dinner. Those have been 60 good years, in my opinion.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2012/05/29/recipe-for-coronation-chicken/MS5MpcpyBYjvQfb49HO8XI/story.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "WALSH STUART" <[email protected]>
To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 8:41 AM
Subject: [LUTE] unusual combination: lute and stylophone
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRMAfVrz04
Stuart
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRMAfVrz04
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