Klarinet Archive - Posting 000538.txt from 1999/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Forwarded for Abe
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:52:05 -0400

>From Abe Galper (who had some trouble posting this morning):

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This appeared in this morning's newspaper

The anthem "God save the King" was originally "God save our Lord the King."
It was sung to King George II in 1745 at a theatre performance to cheer him
following a military defeat and to express solidarity.

It was King George II that stood up in Handel's Messiah for the Hallelujah
chorus, thereby starting a tradition. The audience to this day stands up for
that chorus.

This story says that he was slightly deaf and may have mistaken it for God
save the King. I asked my wife and she said that the sovereign does not
stand when they play the anthem. So its possible that King George got up for
another reason. We'll never know why. And to this day, for the Chorus of
Hallelujah, the audience stands up.

Patriotic songs are taken seriously South of the border. During the first
world war, Viennese born Ernst Kunwald, the conductor of the Cincinnati
Symphony, declined to play the Star Spangled Banner. He was arrested and
deported as an enemy alien.

The other item in the article says that US president Ulysses Grant once
said;" I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other
isn't."

--
Avrahm Galper
CLARINET TONE TECHNIQUE AND STACCATO
CLARINET UPBEAT SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
http://www.sneezy.org/avrahm_galper/index.html

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