Word: anthem
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...Viva España! From the green valleys to the vast sea, a hymn of brotherhood." After four months, six experts, and 7000 entries to propose lyrics for the Spanish national anthem, one might be forgiven for asking: is that really the best they...
...decades Spain's athletes have stood awkwardly on awards podiums, forced to hum their wordless anthem while winners from elsewhere sang their paeans to national glory. In October, the Spanish Olympic Committee, seeking to bring an end to their suffering, launched a competition to put words to the Marcha Real, Spain's official tune since the 18th century. When the contest opened, doubts ran high that a country with so many distinct - and antagonistic - political identities would be able to settle on a single set of lyrics. But when the winning words were leaked to the Spanish newspaper...
...Franco-esque ring of that "Viva España!," called them "stale." Artur Mas, leader of the Catalan party Convergence I Unio, sniped, "With words like this, I don't think you'll see me singing it much." Even the conservative Popular Party, which has made the addition of anthem lyrics part of its campaign platform, could manage only a tepid response. "They don't seem bad to me," said PP congressional leader Jorge Fernández...
...lyrics failed to engender much enthusiasm among ordinary Spaniards either. As a result the Spanish Olympic committee withdrew them on Wednesday, just days after it announced a winner. Gone is the gala, scheduled for January 21, at which Plácido Domingo was to perform the newly worded anthem for the first time. Gone is the effort to gather 500,000 supporting signatures so that the lyrics might be submitted to parliament for official approval. And gone, once and for all, is "glory to the sons who gave to history justice and greatness, democracy and peace...
...fact, the show (produced by David S. Jewett ’08, Roy A. Kimmey III ’09, and Mary Eleanor Stebbins ’08) cultivates an anachronistic air throughout all its aspects, starting with the solemn playing of the British national anthem at the show’s beginning. Getting into this late-19th-century mindset is perhaps advisable if one wants to comfortably enjoy a musical whose Japanese characters have names such as Nanki...