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"La Espero"

orthohawk :lta, 3. tammikuuta 2009

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Kieli: English

orthohawk (Näytä profiilli) 3. tammikuuta 2009 19.50.22

OK, call me a fiesperantisto but I. Cannot. Stand. the music that is currently used for this poem (not only does it sound idiotic and undignified to me, but the range hurts my voice). I hate it worse than I hate okra (and, lemme tell ya, that's a LOTTA hate!) I'm sorely tempted to refuse to sing the anthem with that music when I go to my first Landa Kongreso this year.

I seem to remember seeing somewhere, a different melody for it. Am I in some kind of dreamland? Or is there actually a more....dignified sounding melody for this wonderful poem, kitchy as it can be?

Miland (Näytä profiilli) 3. tammikuuta 2009 21.15.16

The best rendering of La Espero that I have heard is the last track in the 4-CD set Tiel Sonis. It was sung by a choir at the 1977 Universala Kongreso in Rekjavik. Try that one.

Karedio (Näytä profiilli) 3. tammikuuta 2009 23.23.32

There are two other melodies that have been used. You can find them here:

http://www.geocities.com/lilandr/kantoj/eismaj/EnL...

http://www.geocities.com/lilandr/kantoj/eismaj/EnL...

Miland (Näytä profiilli) 4. tammikuuta 2009 0.41.32

Karedio:http://www.geocities.com/lilandr/kantoj/eismaj/EnL...
This second one (by Motteau) is quite nice, although it does have the disadvantage of repeating the first two lines of La Espero a number of times.

I don't see it replacing the traditional tune of the himno by Menil, but it may be worth trying out as a recreational activity during Esperanto events.

qwertz (Näytä profiilli) 25. tammikuuta 2009 21.30.08

I heard that young people dislike the "la espero" hymn. Is that correct? At the La Pafklik album the track number 16 (La Espero) is stopped after 21 seconds with a New Year's Eve cracker. The track 17 is the G-Funka versio of a song called "fek al esperanto". By the beginning of this song you can hear like some ice is dropping into a cocktail glas.

For me that looks like there excists an conflict between the matured 68 hippie and the I-Pod teens generation?

cheers,

Miland (Näytä profiilli) 25. tammikuuta 2009 21.50.58

The DVD course Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo contains a large part of a very good rendering of La Espero which may well be the one from the UK in Rejkjavik. Here's a clip on Youtube (5:23-6:35) with that version.

orthohawk (Näytä profiilli) 25. tammikuuta 2009 23.05.32

Miland:The DVD course Pasporto al la Tuta Mondo contains a large part of a very good rendering of La Espero which may well be the one from the UK in Rejkjavik. Here's a clip on Youtube (5:23-6:35) with that version.
Nope. This is the one I can't stand.

Miland (Näytä profiilli) 25. tammikuuta 2009 23.37.16

orthohawk:Nope. This is the one I can't stand.
Then I suggest that you repent, for I am quite sure that it will never be changed.

Bonan nokton.

tommjames (Näytä profiilli) 26. tammikuuta 2009 14.33.43

I wouldn't say I hate the tune, but yea it definitely sounds dated and perhaps somewhat ridiculous in the way it repeats the melody over and over with each verse. And I suspect the higher notes are out the singing range of most people, I know I certainly can't hit them without croaking.

This is of course part of the dorky and old-fasioned image of Esperanto that regrettably persists through to this day. I guess back in the late 1800's or whenever it was written it was a funky peice of music but nowadays it just sounds lame. Perhaps it's time for a new tune to be composed and voted upon by the community.

As Miland says though, probably no chance of that happening.

erinja (Näytä profiilli) 26. tammikuuta 2009 15.52.28

Almost every national anthem sounds old-fashioned. Almost every national anthem sounds like an old European hymn, even if the country is not European at all. I almost think that they purposely choose national anthems to be boring.

And the US national anthem is certainly unsingable. Probably you have to be either a professional singer, or a drunk, to sing it properly, since it is a variation of an old bar tune.

So in this sense, our Esperanto anthem is pretty much the same as every country's anthem!

If we choose a more modern tune, no doubt it too will sound dated after a while. Might as well just live with what we have.

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