Word: anthemic
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...years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike other opera singers of his era, Merrill never avoided the mainstream. He made many recordings, including one of the national anthem that was used for years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
When Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the European anthem since 1972, began to play, everyone present stood up somewhat awkwardly. Patriotism is not nearly as common in Europe as in the United States, so the images of the ceremony in the beautiful room were particularly striking. It seemed as if Europe’s politicians, under Zeffirelli’s direction, were trying to give a founding narrative to a process that Europe’s citizens have often seen as bureaucratic and distant. Of course, Europe’s complicated past was ever present: A gigantic statue...
...years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike many opera singers of his age, Merrill never avoided the mainstream: he appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and his recording of the national anthem was used for many years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
Virtually every Parker production wants to be a musical, and Team America somehow accommodates eight songs that poke fun in the eye of the Broadway-style ballad (Kim warbles "I'm So Ronery"), the Alan Jackson inspirational anthem ("Freedom Isn't Free") and Bruckheimer's costliest epic ("I miss you/ More than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor"). They keep the smiles coming until the end, when the film goes numbingly nuts and expends all its imagination on ways to kill off people like Helen Hunt and Janeane Garofalo...
...icon (“Donovan”) and a family tragedy (“Grandbag’s Funeral”) before “Loose Fit,” a grooving tribute to the rave movement as fitting as any hedonistic hippie anthem. Over a repeated synth line and low, jazzy percussion, Ryder maps out the loose-fit aesthetic and the ethos of the accompanying rave scene as the album shifts to depictions of the loosely-fit’s high life, with the buoyancy of stand-out “Dennis and Lois” countered...