pippa
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War
Apr 5, 2011 23:46:48 GMT
Post by pippa on Apr 5, 2011 23:46:48 GMT
the theme is war.
i was actually looking for emma kirkby singing 'rise glory rise' but found this instead - pretty sure it's her.
anyway songs about war.
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aubrey
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War
Feb 26, 2012 15:33:59 GMT
Post by aubrey on Feb 26, 2012 15:33:59 GMT
This is the right speed:
And a cover:
Tell of the birth; tell how war appeared on earth!
Thunder and herbs, conjugated sacred verbs, musicians with gongs fertilised an egg with song.
Asleep in the sphere her foetus was a knot of fear. She butted with her horn, split an egg and war was born. A miracle of hate: she banged her spoon against her plate.
Upon her spoon this motto wonderfully designed: "Violence completes the partial mind". Stacking the bones on the empty aerodrome, tinted turtle green haunts the slender submarine. She shakes her gory locks over the deserted docks.
Come follow me out of dark obscurity, follow my torch, pilgrims at the double march through meadows and seas, abattoirs and libraries.
The pilgrims increase boasting, they are led by peace. They gut huts with gusto, pillage villages with verve; war does what she has to, people get what they deserve.
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pippa
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War
Apr 25, 2012 9:17:17 GMT
Post by pippa on Apr 25, 2012 9:17:17 GMT
"The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated, after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers had been killed. News of the landing on Gallipoli had made a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in the war."
Nay's reminder, elsewhere, that it's ANZAC day.
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