I don't consider this a snob level take, but I respectfully disagree about the few words soloists, or conductors, or concertmasters say before a performance. For us novices the background and insight is valuable and welcome. Just my $.02.
Loved the LIV article even though I missed it contemporaneously.
At the high school baseball game. The scheduled National Anthem singer is a no show. They ask my daughter who to get since she knows everybody. She volunteers me. I know the words and am notable for being loud in public.
Talk about pressure. Luckily, somebody's seven-year-old niece showed up at the last minute, and I was able to gracefully step aside. She nailed it.
Do they know the lyrics to the National Anthem? If they're baseball fans they do!
We just got back from a vacation in Scotland, and last weekend we went to a play in Edinburgh. My wife and I were both astonished when the performance . . . just started! No national anthem. No theater official talking about the play or plugging a fund drive. Nobody telling us where the exits were. And nobody spouting fatuous nonsense about how for millennia indigenous peoples were caretakers of the land the theater was built on.
The curtain just went up, and Chekhov's characters just started talking past each other.
I don't consider this a snob level take, but I respectfully disagree about the few words soloists, or conductors, or concertmasters say before a performance. For us novices the background and insight is valuable and welcome. Just my $.02.
Loved the LIV article even though I missed it contemporaneously.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is still in business? Didn’t Trump kill it?
At the high school baseball game. The scheduled National Anthem singer is a no show. They ask my daughter who to get since she knows everybody. She volunteers me. I know the words and am notable for being loud in public.
Talk about pressure. Luckily, somebody's seven-year-old niece showed up at the last minute, and I was able to gracefully step aside. She nailed it.
Always learn something new from your Substack. Checking out My Crazy Century by Klima
Do they know the lyrics to the National Anthem? If they're baseball fans they do!
We just got back from a vacation in Scotland, and last weekend we went to a play in Edinburgh. My wife and I were both astonished when the performance . . . just started! No national anthem. No theater official talking about the play or plugging a fund drive. Nobody telling us where the exits were. And nobody spouting fatuous nonsense about how for millennia indigenous peoples were caretakers of the land the theater was built on.
The curtain just went up, and Chekhov's characters just started talking past each other.
Please write the book regarding National Anthems. I’ll take a signed copy, please.
"Everything I think is embedded in that piece."
You talked about this on The Remnant podcast. I thought both you and Jonah made reasonable points, but my gut was with you.
Also, my teenagers say "rizz" is over.
By time you’ve heard it, it always is.
My son Vlad's science team called themselves "The Rizzlers" three years ago, so I think that's when it peaked. Vlad is very trendy.