[HANASHIR:14316] Re: national anthems, in particular Oh Canada

[Ros Schwartz <ros_schwartz...>]

No, no, Edward is just displaying the typical Canadian inferiority 
complex of "if we wrote it, it must not be very good".  That's why any 
Canadian artist who wants to be famous has to go the to US for 
recognition - it's not because there are so many more people there, it's 
because Canadians believe that Canadian-grown music must by definition 
be boring and unoriginal.  On the other hand, if you move to the US, 
suddenly your music acquires an originality and insight it couldn't 
possibly have had at home.

Hence the famous saying - What is the Canadian Olympic dream?  To win a 
silver medal!

- Ros
born and bred in Canada, originally from Montreal, Quebec,
now living in Kingston, Ontario where we have finally had three sunny 
days in a row, and no snow for ... oh, almost two weeks?

Danielkare (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/19/2003 2:35:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> eekatzmd (at) yahoo(dot)ca writes:
>
>> O Canada (typical
>> Canadian originality). It's the most boring of songs,
>
>
>
> HEY! I beg to differ!  Being partly of Canadian heritage (my 
> grandparents took the boat to Halifax and then the train to Montreal, 
> which was to be their refuge from the Holocaust...) that song is 
> beautiful and emotionally stirring to me (as are the Star Spangled 
> Banner and Hatikvah, the latter of which I was very happy and proud to 
> record on my children's cd). 
>
> -Karen Daniel
>
>
>


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