Right-on Lizzo plays Land of Hope and Glory with the New York Phil

Sisko24 says:

That video was first posted in late spring which is commencement/graduation time for most schools and colleges in the U.S. Thus her performance here predates the ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ controversy by several months.

violafan says:

“drum machine”

Herbie G says:

The theme first appeared as the trio section of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, written in 1901. It’s a purely orchestral work. In the following year, Elgar wrote a Coronation Ode for Edward VII and in the sixth movement, the finale, the melody appears again, but with the words added. It is sung by a contralto but there’s a sophisticated rubato-type delay on the words ‘Mother of the free’, where the solo line has a slightly different melody from the orchestra. The theme appears once again, this time with the chorus but different words.
The traditional ‘Last Night of the Proms’ offering is a bastardised version; the whole of the purely orchestral Pomp and Circumstance march is played but when the ‘big theme’ appears for the second and third times, the conductor brings in the audience, who each time sing only the words of the first appearance in the Coronation Ode, and always ‘on the beat’ – the subtle rubato would be a huge challenge to them.
All this gives the lie to Tony Hall’s pathetic excuse that a soloist on the last night could not sing it without a chorus. One does so in the Coronation Ode and could easily sing the second and different set of words that were given to the chorus in that work on the melody’s second appearance in the march.
As far as Rule, Britannia goes, exactly the same applies; the choir could easily be dispensed with and a soloist could sing all the words.
Both songs are outdated, the words are imperialist and have no place in the modern world. That’s why I love them so much and find them hugely uplifting. The same goes for Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’. Yes, they offend a few people but they don’t have to listen to the LNOP if they choose not to, and a great deal more people would be offended if they were dropped.
It’s time we stopped being ruled by Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Snapchat – and all those noisy anti-social media and street mobs. It’s time too that we and especially the BBC, with its vicarious ‘conscience’ stopped appeasing them.
Let’s celebrate the departure of Tony Hall today, who went with a whimper after that pathetic interview about RB the other day. Let’s hope that Ed Davey clears his desk and leaves with his tripewriter and bottle of Typpex. After I post this, I shall raise a glass of wine to celebrate Tony’s exit.
We have applauded the NHS from our front doors, so I hope that we can all watch the Last Night and sing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia from our front doorsteps when the time arrives.
Finally, if anyone hates this country so much that they turn out in the streets to cause mayhem and violence and go as far as destroying our statues and redacting our history, then let them find a better place to live – and that goes for all colours, all religions and all political adherants. I salute everyone who sings Rule, Britannia and abhor those malevolent mobs whose ambition is to Rule Britannia.