I would so much love to understand what he is saying about my country's truly ridiculous yet bloody cultural context for those tunes and what it means to have them played together.
In short, he said with great humor that at the end of the war of secession a hymn had to be chosen. The belligerents of the north and the south did not choose Yankee Doodle or Dixie, they preferred to choose a third one. But they could have put their two hymns together and he played the arrangement.
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I would so much love to understand what he is saying about my country's truly ridiculous yet bloody cultural context for those tunes and what it means to have them played together.
In short, he said with great humor that at the end of the war of secession a hymn had to be chosen. The belligerents of the north and the south did not choose Yankee Doodle or Dixie, they preferred to choose a third one. But they could have put their two hymns together and he played the arrangement.