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Post by freakydeaky on Feb 8, 2016 2:08:36 GMT -5
Thanks to all for the birthday wishes yesterday. Adamtopia is my happy place, and when real life is challenging and dark, I know I can get an Adam fix of sunshine from Adam and his loveloy Glamberts. It means the world to me! You describe it beautifully. Happy birthday for your birthday yesterday. i am feeling like shit the past days and i am glad i can come here and talk with people about our share interest and many more things. Thanks so much everyone! Aww, sweetie, hope you're feeling better.....
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Post by Holst on Feb 8, 2016 6:40:25 GMT -5
After the 9/11 terrorist tragedy, all sporting events - games, etc. -- stopped for several weeks. When 'life was ready to return to normal', my DH and I prepared to go to a San Francisco Giants baseball game. I asked my son - who, at the time, worked for this organization - if, on this night when we began our heartbroken, terrorized journey back to 'normal' - if, for just this once, the National Anthem could be sung by the citizens; the ordinary people who dream of heroes, who try to be heroes, in everyday life. He listened to me. Our collective voice brought the most beautiful 'Star Spangled Banner' I've ever heard into the ballpark. I felt the vibration in the stands; I watched old men, with hands over their hearts, holding their ball caps, singing with tears in their eyes. I don't understand why we've made our National Anthem something to be listened to, instead of something to be proclaimed in song. I thought Gaga's rendition, today, was amazing. Even more amazing would have been the voices of 50,000 alongside her. If our children don't sing the song, how will they ever remember the words? or the question - does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?Beautiful post m t m I teach SSB to all my students at school in music class grades K-8. In fact, this is the time of year when I do it. K starts learning the beginning and learn decorum. Eventually through the years they get it memorized. But by 8th grade, I often have to do remediation on the decorum part (you know how some boys at that age have to "schooled" not to be silly or goof around.) We have become a nation of observers/listeners when it becomes to music-- just SSB. We don't sing together any more as a community or even as families. I remember watching a celebration of some sports team in the middle east (don't remember who, when, where, etc.). A player was being interviewed and in the background an entire room of men was singing and dancing together in celebration. Can't imagine that happening in U.S. sports.
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Post by cassie on Feb 8, 2016 8:20:24 GMT -5
Beautiful post m t m I teach SSB to all my students at school in music class grades K-8. In fact, this is the time of year when I do it. K starts learning the beginning and learn decorum. Eventually through the years they get it memorized. But by 8th grade, I often have to do remediation on the decorum part (you know how some boys at that age have to "schooled" not to be silly or goof around.) We have become a nation of observers/listeners when it becomes to music-- just SSB. We don't sing together any more as a community or even as families. I remember watching a celebration of some sports team in the middle east (don't remember who, when, where, etc.). A player was being interviewed and in the background an entire room of men was singing and dancing together in celebration. Can't imagine that happening in U.S. sports. You bring up a good point. When I was young (boy do I sound like my grandma), we sang all the time. It was a family communal activity in the evening and at gatherings and events. Singing Christmas carols around the tree on Christmas eve was a requirement. We also sang around the campfire and on the front porch on a summer evening. Perhaps we were a throwback to one or two generations earlier, when recorded music was a rarity and a luxury, and radio reception was spotty if available at all (if the family could afford a "victrola" to play it). People played and sang music because that was the only way music was available to most. You couldn't sit back and listen; you had to create it for yourself. Music was a participatory art. No use longing for days past, but it was a special feeling to create music together across the generations.
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Post by mireille on Feb 8, 2016 15:18:48 GMT -5
You describe it beautifully. Happy birthday for your birthday yesterday. i am feeling like shit the past days and i am glad i can come here and talk with people about our share interest and many more things. Thanks so much everyone! Aww, sweetie, hope you're feeling better..... Thank you!
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Post by sizzling63 on Feb 8, 2016 17:36:02 GMT -5
After the 9/11 terrorist tragedy, all sporting events - games, etc. -- stopped for several weeks. When 'life was ready to return to normal', my DH and I prepared to go to a San Francisco Giants baseball game. I asked my son - who, at the time, worked for this organization - if, on this night when we began our heartbroken, terrorized journey back to 'normal' - if, for just this once, the National Anthem could be sung by the citizens; the ordinary people who dream of heroes, who try to be heroes, in everyday life. He listened to me. Our collective voice brought the most beautiful 'Star Spangled Banner' I've ever heard into the ballpark. I felt the vibration in the stands; I watched old men, with hands over their hearts, holding their ball caps, singing with tears in their eyes. I don't understand why we've made our National Anthem something to be listened to, instead of something to be proclaimed in song. I thought Gaga's rendition, today, was amazing. Even more amazing would have been the voices of 50,000 alongside her. If our children don't sing the song, how will they ever remember the words? or the question - does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? I guess Gaga's name is more of a draw than 50,000 "ordinary" voices... (I came home late last night from a beautiful weekend at the beach and haven't watched anything Super Bowl related yet. I know who won haha and I heard that Gaga did well. I'm definitely curious to check out her performance. Not surprised here that CP didn't knock anybody's socks off during halftime...Don't like them live.)
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