Sunday, November 16, 2008

Vive la Liberté!

C'est mon hymne national préféré! Vive la République et Vive la liberté!!!

The French National Anthem, La Marseillaise, performed impressively by Placido Domingo, a Spaniard. And with good reason.

With all due respect to my own country's anthem, the French national anthem is by far the most beautiful and the most stirring: inspired and shaped by the mother of all revolutions, The French Revolution, the anthem's message of equality, fraternity and above all, liberty, resonates to every freedom-loving citizen from all corners of the world.


2 comments:

tentative said...

The Lupang Hinirang is La Marseillaise performed backwards daw? How true?

I think it was a TV feature on Carlos Celdran's Intramuros walking tour where I heard this one.

ROSENKAVALIER said...

I don't know about that, he was probably making a rhetorical statement to make his tour interesting, but I won't take that statement seriously at face value. The melodic strands are a bit similar, though, but the same can be said for so many other national anthems, especially the old Soviet Union's.

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