[Dixielandjazz] National Anthems

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Some of the South American anthems are the way I described.  As I recall the 
Ecuadorian anthem even changes meter and lasts forever.  The French National 
anthem is only memorable for the first dozen bars or so and then just gets 
lost somewhere.  There are a lot of poor ones and some very nice.  I think 
England and Germany have nice melodic anthems that are to the point and 
reasonable in length and can be sung by a human unlike ours.  Also other 
countries don't seem to have seven different versions such as we have the 
Roseanne version, the Jimmy Hendrix version, the person who can't sing 
version, or this is out of my range version, the C&W version, the soul 
version and everything in between.

If we didn't do it at the ballpark no one would ever know we even had one.
Larry Walton
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] National Anthems


> Larry wrote:
> Some of the national anthems just go on and on and when you think they are
> getting over they just keep going....
>
> We've also got a solution to that one, Larry.  Most of the time only a 
> small
> part of the anthem is ever played (in Spain).  It is not played at 
> sporting
> events.
>
> Jim
>
>
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