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In the Thread: Playing American Music on July 4?
Post Subject: The patriotic Americana…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/3/2009
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Do you think only Russian composed stupid music to celebrate own leaders? (BTW, not all that music was stupid) Well, in US we do it as well. David Diamond (a prolific American composer and the author of 11 symphonies, dozen quarters and so on) composed in 60s his oratorio “This Sacred Ground” where he orchestrated the… Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Well, I do like the Diamond’s musk at the Sacred Ground, the Gettysburg Address is a magnificent example of powerful oratory but together it sound even more horrible than John Adams' opera "Dr. Atomic". It just does not work!!!
Saying that I have to admit that a few weeks back I heard Garrison Keillor with his crew singing (!!!) the classifieds from newspaper … and it was superb!
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