TONAL TOGETHERNESS
Singing together has a very important function. When a group sings an anthem or a school song together there is a bonding that cannot be found in any other articulation. I will never forget a moment as I was attending the Tattoo in Edinburgh, Scotland when everyone stood and sang God Save the Queen. I recognized that within the 30,000 people attending were English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh audience members all of whom had strongly divergent opinions, political affiliations and religious beliefs. Nevertheless, the obvious tears of patriotism and the fervor with which they sang the anthem brought about immediacy and mutual aspiration relating to their joint homeland...Great Britain. Speeches could not do that.
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