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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:38:18 GMT
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- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: inauguration
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :> What no one has mentioned was Marilyn Horne--while her National Anthem
- :>was so-so, and the Rainbow song contrived (yeah, even unto mawkish), the first
- :>one she sang--an old Quaker hymn, I think, was superb--the perfect song for
- the
- :>moment, in the perfect voice.
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- : 'Tis a Gift to Be Simple' is a Shaker tune, as adapted by Copland.
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- Oh my god. Are you telling me a song that has been sung on Alias Smith
- and Jones, the Six Million Dollar Man, and Little House on the Prarie
- *isn't* mawkish. Makes me retch. (I noted that one at the time because
- it was an unfamiliar lyric to an old British tune, "The Lord of the Dance")
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- G
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