Re: Deutchland Uber Alles

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

It's also the "Alma Mater" of my alma mater, Columbia University (with
hilariously awful and very Latinate lyrics that begin "Mother stayed on
rock eternal/Crowned and set upon a height").

George (a roaring Columbia Lion if there ever was one) Robinson


Jonathan Gordon wrote:
> 
> Unless my recollection is wrong, Salomon Sulzer, the first great Cantor of
> international repute has a setting of Deutchland Uber Ales, with different
> words, of course, for the birthday of some great person in one of his
> volumes of compositions.  I think it is scored for harp and other
> instruments as well as full choir.  It must have been a German national
> treasure before the fascists put those words in. Imagine the book Shir Zsion
> with that tune in it.
> jonathan gordon
> 

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