Posts Tagged ‘ O Valiant Hearts ’

O Valiant Hearts, lest we forget …

Nov 11th, 2021 | By | Category: In Brief

We just want to very simply commemorate Remembrance Day in Canada, November 11, 2021, with three performances of the haunting memorial hymn from World War I, “O Valiant Hearts” (on YouTube). First is “A Tribute and Remembrance Video for the Canadians fighting in Afghanistan,” posted in 2009 — and with “O Valiant Hearts” as the […]



O valiant [Toronto] hearts who to your glory came .. your memory hallowed in the land you loved

Nov 11th, 2013 | By | Category: In Brief

Every Remembrance Day for a while now I’ve tried to find some particular music on You Tube – without success. It all goes back to when I played in my high school marching band in Toronto, in the first half of the 1960s. The folkways of the British empire still weighed more heavily on the […]