Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hans Eisler which Brecht originally wrote into the texture of his play. But hoping to make Brecht's uncompromising moral preachments more palatable to American audiences, whose effete musical diet dates from the Ziegfeld Follies, not Wagner, Lehrman has inserted six more songs by Eisler and the Communist anthem "Internationale" to make Commune more fully music-drama ( Theater mit Musik ). He justifies the increased emphasis on music not solely as a concession to American sensibility, but as the "use of a Wagnerian technique to make it [ Commune ] more Brechtian...
...shocking and grisly as the pictures are, you've performed a service by showing them if they inspire a few comfortable patriots to second thoughts about the nobility of war and about the values of a nation that cannot even play the national anthem at the end of a day's television without showing uniformed soldiers marching and bombs bursting in air. Maybe some day patriotism will no longer be synonymous with militarism, and young men won't have to prove their love of their own country by taking over someone else's homeland...
Since the release of their first album, the Dead have developed innovatively and very steadily; they've recorded four more studio albums- Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead , and their most recent, American Beauty , and have brought out two "live" albums, Vintage Dead and Live Dead...
Along the way, the workmen of Gdansk sang the traditional Communist anthem, the Internationale. Soon the march was swelled by hundreds of housewives, students and other Gdansk citizens, equally incensed by the price increases. By the time the column reached party headquarters, it was 20,000 strong. It was also out of control. In vain, police pleaded with the demonstrators to halt. In reply, the crowd hurled homemade fire bombs at the headquarters building and the nearby Gdansk railroad station. When firemen arrived to douse the flames, they were beaten back. Police opened fire on the demonstrators-only to turn...
...color-TV coverage. In the apse behind the choir hung an enormous ceiling-to-floor tricolor. When Pompidou and his wife entered, the white-robed cathedral choir began a chorale from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Within an hour, the service ended with a Magnificat. The same anthem had closed the Notre Dame service in which De Gaulle offered a prayer of thanksgiving after his triumphant return to Paris...