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It's Sir Edward Elgar's birthday. Maybe not the greatest composer, but where would graduations be without him?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:07 AM
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Did he write for graduations or did it sort of just get picked up (like Monty Python did to Sousa's Liberty Bell March)
This is only one of several "Pomp And Circumstance" marches he wrote. You never hear them because they never got picked up for other purposes.
And "pomp and circumstance" as a phrase comes from Othello. It has something to do with how the showiness of military parades ("pomp") compares with the drab brutality of actual war ("circumstance") though, due to a poorly written article, I couldn't really tell whether the composer was relating them or contrasting them (he wrote before the horror of WWI etc... )
Somehow the piece related to a poem which seem rather jingo
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