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National Anthems in Ottawa

Started by Hockeytown0001, Mar 25 2012 01:01 AM

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#21 jollymania

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 07:10 PM

what happened to their normal guy, he is easily the beast in the league.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 07:55 PM

It's weird, normally after long delays to start the game they let the players take another short warm up.. lucky no one pulled a groin after that..

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#23 Barrie

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 08:50 PM

I love the way they do it in Tampa Bay--no anthem singer, just an organ with the words on the jumbo tron and everyone sings it.

I'm a Karen Newman fan, but I'd rather it be done organ style and the fans just sing a long.

I would think the players would appreciate if the anthems were sung at regular speed, so they can get the game started!

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:27 PM

I showed the video to a friend, he thought for the first minute it wasn't real - it was that bad.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:38 PM

I just died a little bit on the inside.

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#26 Frozen-Man

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 08:41 AM

Wow . . . it was like my ears got kicked in the crotch.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 09:46 AM

I was laughing when I saw Crosby trying so hard not to burst out laughing. That was just painful

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 10:42 AM

Completely classless with the "let me hear you" during O Canada. I don't have a problem with opera singers doing the anthems, as I've heard many of them perform them well and with the respect and dignity the songs deserve. I've also heard far too many "vocalists" from all genres turn the national anthems into exercises in musical masturbation.

This one's vibrato, however, was beyond obnoxious. If a soprano was to sing like that for any of the honors chorus auditions I've been involved with she wouldn't qualify for districts, let alone regions or all states. While being part of a chorus is different than being a soloist, vibrato wide enough to drive a semi truck through that detracts from the performance is never acceptable.

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I cannot get this video to play but if your description is correct, I cannot stand slow vibratos. There is absolutely no excuse for hiring someone to sing like that. I've heard versions of the Messiah with "professional" soloists and if I didn't already know the thing by heart, I wouldn't know what the hell note they were trying to sing. Drives me batz.

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#29 Frozen-Man

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 10:51 AM

I was laughing when I saw Crosby trying so hard not to burst out laughing. That was just painful

Yeah, it was funny watching most of the players try not to crack up. NHL.com thought it was funny enough to put a clip of it on their site "Sens and Pens get an earful of National Anthem." Karlsson is the funniest though you can tell he completely loses it.

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#30 joshy207

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 01:51 PM

This is straight out of Mystery, Alaska! Skip ahead to 4:45...

Edited by joshy207, 26 March 2012 - 04:01 PM.

#31 wmuwingsfan

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 02:06 PM

One of my biggest pet peeves is playing/singing the national anthem slowly. It is meant to be upbeat. Ugh. I appreciate artistic license and all but...sometimes it just goes way too far.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 04:09 PM

I cannot get this video to play but if your description is correct, I cannot stand slow vibratos. There is absolutely no excuse for hiring someone to sing like that. I've heard versions of the Messiah with "professional" soloists and if I didn't already know the thing by heart, I wouldn't know what the hell note they were trying to sing. Drives me batz.

Bingo. Vibrato is supposed to be a controlled effect to enhance long tones, not obscure them. At least she wasn't adding melismas on top of it. Nothing like ending a phrase that's written with a half note as the closing note and replacing it with thirty pitches, the vast majority of which fall out of the diatonic scale appropriate to the piece being performed (or even better, falling between semitones) and not once hitting the correct pitch during the whole run.

Edited by TheXym, 26 March 2012 - 04:10 PM.

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#33 wolverine1817

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Posted 27 March 2012 - 12:03 AM

unnecessary vibrato is unnecessary

one of the MOST GOD D*#@$ ANNOYING F#$#$@ things you can do when trying to sound like a good singer... at least imo. God I hate that.

I HATE IT SO MUCH

oh, btw *****, they're there to watch a hockey game... speed it the f up

Edited by wolverine1817, 27 March 2012 - 12:05 AM.