American Reacts To Jerusalem And God Save The Queen - Last Night at the Proms 2012 

Miss her

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@@IslandGirlzHaveFlow05XBS Thank you so much for you lovely message. Just getting over Covid so feeling more emotional than usual I suppose. Jerusalem was always my Mum's favourite too. xx

@@patricialavender2902 Your Mum has good taste Patricia. Jerusalem is one of my Favourites and I am going to have it played when I finally bow out 🙏

Our Queen xxx

I’m watching this in February 2024 and I’m still crying …… miss you dear Majesty and I always will ……. I know you are all in heaven wishing your son , daughter in law and granddaughter in law a speedy recovery ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Well I don't think anyone is ever ready for death, but we can adapt to change :)

I agree not ready to let her go yet

Oh wow. Thanks for watching and sharing that with me. 🥰🥰

And the story of how Parry wrote the music is worth knowing too: Sir Hubert Parry was a highly respected musician, Director of the Royal College of Music and Oxford Professor of Music. He was also an atheist (he would have said humanist) and a socialist. He really didn't understand why we were at war with Germany. Then in early March 1916 he was visited by Henry Walford Davies (an organist, choral conductor and former pupil) and the Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges. They asked if Parry would contribute something to a fundraising concert to be held later in the month at the Albert Hall. The cause was Fight For Right - a lobbying organization attempting to persuade the government not to seek peace with Germany. Parry was decidedly not keen on supporting such a clearly right-wing cause and said no. But he did allow Bridges to leave behind the Blake poem. Several days later Parry called back and gave them the music (singers in unison with organ) saying, "Here's a tune - do what you like with it". Maybe Walford Davies had thought that the rather left-wing theme of the verses ("the country may not be perfect but we have to strive to make it so") would appeal to Parry. In any case, the song went down well at the concert and sold well. But then Parry withdrew all support for Fight For Right, and there was concern that he'd withdraw the song (he'd retained the copyright, so he could). Then Millicent Garrett Fawcett, one of the leaders of the Women Voters' movement (the Suffragettes, fighting for women's voting rights) asked Parry if they might use the song as their hymn. Parry was delighted and assigned the copyright to the Suffragettes. Parry died in 1918 in the Spanish Flu pandemic, and Elgar made the big-orchestra version for the Leeds Festival of 1922.

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@@IslandGirlzHaveFlow05XBS Thank you! I am so glad that you enjoyed it! David x

Love you too 🥰🥰

Wow, thank you!🥰

Aww thanks 🥰🥰

🥰🥰 aww thanks. Stay warm🥰

Glad you enjoyed❤

My favourite. 💙

What a shame, I'm sure you'll get over it.

You are so kind thank you 🥰🥰

Stop. The cap. No its not

Barmy Army is never far beneath the surface. We don't put our flag on every building, truck and dumpster but when the occasion is right we just 'Be British', Loud and Proud. Sadly there is a part of the Establishment and politics that has taken it upon itself to take every opportunity to run this great country down. It is utterly shameful and no other country does it. Rule Britannia! God Save the King!

@@1chish we carry the pride in our hearts and show it by our actions. Not by indoctrination like the U.S. . Theirs is a forced pride.

@@jono.pom-downunder I cannot understand swearing allegiance to a piece of cloth or defending a Constitution written by very different people 250 years ago in very different circumstances. I swore allegiance to a living person representing my country - Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth. I wore the Union Flag with pride but my allegiance was to her as commander in chief. As plain ordinary citizens we are not, as you say, forced as US children are to parrot their Oath or Allegiance every morning. Its actually quite a disturbing thing.

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I think so too🥰🥰