American Reacts to Fantasia on British Sea-Songs Part 2 inc. Rule Britannia - Last Night Proms 2012

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  • @batkinssmart4273
    @batkinssmart4273 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The singer was Joseph Calleja, from Malta (Malta is part of the British Commonwealth). The cross is a Maltese cross.

    • @anthonyferris8912
      @anthonyferris8912 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Strictly speaking, it's no longer the “British” Commonwealth. Just ‘The Commonwealth’.

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank You

    • @tonyfranks9551
      @tonyfranks9551 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@TheRealSquirrel Malta is also known as the George Cross Island after bravery of its people in WW2.

    • @bliss9654
      @bliss9654 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRealSquirrel , its also known as the Templer Cross, symbol of the Freemason illuminated ones.

    • @jameslynch7826
      @jameslynch7826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hoser
      That’s British Canadian for Loser!

  • @TheCardiffgirl
    @TheCardiffgirl ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The pink carrnation is in memory of Sir Malcom Sargeant, conductor of the last night of the proms for many years. He was always very dapper and reminded all of us of Fred Astair. His short speeches were charming and witty, making the audience (and us) laugh and cheer.

  • @cageygutman7027
    @cageygutman7027 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    In the UK the highest award for civillian bravery the Nation can bestow is The George Cross. If you meet someone the G.C. after their name you'd best take notice and give respect. During WWII the entire Island of Malta was awarded The George Cross.

  • @andrewdale9093
    @andrewdale9093 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Malta was awarded the George Cross , the highest award for civilians from the UK for the islands bravery and defiance during WW2.

    • @nicolasmiley7181
      @nicolasmiley7181 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes the Maltese people nearly starved to death during WWll, they had a dreadful time. They truly deserve the medal

    • @clivenewman4810
      @clivenewman4810 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@nicolasmiley7181 absolutely

    • @frankparsons1629
      @frankparsons1629 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nicolasmiley7181 Yes, the George Cross was given to the ENTIRE ISLAND! And so well deserved for their defiance against the tyranny, the bombing, the lives sadly lost on the island during those terrible months. On 15 April 1942, King George VI awarded the people of Malta the George Cross in recognition of their continuing and heroic struggle against repeated and continuous attacks during World War 2. 154 days and nights and 6,700 tons of bombs. During the entire time, the island’s population of 270,000 were unerring in their refusal to capitulate. Malta was the first British Commonwealth country to receive the bravery award, which is usually given to individuals, and is second only in rank to the Victoria Cross. God bless them all.

    • @davidwatson8873
      @davidwatson8873 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My dad served on a mine sweeper in WW2 around the Med and especially Malta. He said they were a very resilient but warm human beings

  • @jonathangoll2918
    @jonathangoll2918 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The one requirement for whoever sings 'Rule Britannia' is they must have an outsize personality! The singer was Maltese; and although Malta is now an independent country, the UK has often helped Malta through our seapower.
    Our wild and dangerous seas have meant that we have had some superb yachtsmen and yachtswomen. The sea means a lot to the UK.

  • @drewb3565
    @drewb3565 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Always love the last night of the proms..or as my mum referred to it as the "posh people's disco" great video great reacation, keep doing you👍

    • @michellehardman50
      @michellehardman50 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love that.. I’m going to use that for future proms 😂

    • @clivenewman4810
      @clivenewman4810 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michellehardman50 same here

  • @QuietManUK
    @QuietManUK ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Rule Britannia represents the greatest triumph of Britain in its crusade to end the worldwide slave trade. From 1088 slavery became illegal in England, to 1782 where a judge declared that anyone a slave who set foot upon British soil was a free man as the air of Britain was to pure to be corrupted by that abomination. It then went to 1812, when Britain declared slavery throughout its Empire to be illegal and finally to 1832 where Britain declared it would hunt down and end any slave trading throughout the world. Something it by and large achieved by 1890. So, those who despise us as a nation, who can't grasp why we celebrate our past have to really up their game to even get close to what the British achieved. Mock us all you like, but we know we achieved something you could only dream of.

    • @jacquelineharrod6386
      @jacquelineharrod6386 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spot on!😊🇬🇧

    • @carl567
      @carl567 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Brilliant,thanks for that educating fact

  • @sharonkay8638
    @sharonkay8638 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    You’re obviously one of us Squirrel! Great reaction.💪🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸

  • @montyzumazoom1337
    @montyzumazoom1337 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The first tune "no place like home" is usually met with expressions of sadness at the Proms where people are thinking of home and theatrically holding handkerchiefs and drying their weeping eyes etc. Its all part of the fun and enjoyment of the Proms

  • @rickeypayne1
    @rickeypayne1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The cross of the Knights Hospitaller is also the cross of Malta and the st johns ambulance brigade.

  • @corringhamdepot4434
    @corringhamdepot4434 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I believe the carnation worn in memory of conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent who always wore a carnation when conducting the proms. Chief conductor of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts from 1947 to 1967. Until his death in October 1967.

  • @caroleteare924
    @caroleteare924 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The instrument at the beginning is an oboe.
    Oboes are the instruments that the orchestra tunes to before a performance.

  • @RenaissanceEarCandy
    @RenaissanceEarCandy ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Please do the full version of the Fantasia on British sea songs. It's so great

  • @Renlloyd630
    @Renlloyd630 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Is always pulls on the heart strings. Especially to us Brits. You should watch Lee Evans sing I Vow to thee my country from Rememberance Sunday 2022, brought tears to my eyes.

  • @caroleteare924
    @caroleteare924 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you, Squirrel. I loved that. Could you please find The Hornpipe, which I think is in part 1 of the Sea Shanties. It turns into a race between the audience and the orchestra as both get faster and faster. It's really fun to watch.

  • @beccatimps
    @beccatimps ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The singer is called Joseph Calleja and is from Malta, hence the cross on his shirt.

  • @Westcountrynordic
    @Westcountrynordic ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Can't wait to see you doing sailors hornpipe in part one ... Now there's an idea Squirrel and the 5 little squirrels all dressed as old British sailors doing the horn pipe 🤣🤣😂😂

  • @terryloveuk
    @terryloveuk ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Proms are an institution and the Last Night is a special case and tickets for it are always sold out. Still parks all of the UK provide large outdoor screens live

  • @ed_ward_1430
    @ed_ward_1430 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The instrument that began the performance with 'Home, Sweet Home' was an oboe, a double-reeded conical-bore woodwind instrument related to the cor anglais and bassoon.

  • @hiramabiff2017
    @hiramabiff2017 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    So cool to see him wearing the Knight's of Malta cross under that track suit. Although It should have been the Knight's Templar cross , but I suspect it was done as to not upset the eastern population who inhabit our land. Both those crosses are woven into British history at a level that can never be taken away. We just tend not to understand our own history most of the time.

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think you may not have realised that the singer IS Maltese and he was promoting his own country, as opposed to 'not' wearing a Templar's Cross?

    • @hiramabiff2017
      @hiramabiff2017 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@stewedfishproductions7959 lol Thank you. That blew my theory right out the water, but it certainly explains the t-shirt.

    • @quarkwrok
      @quarkwrok ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@hiramabiff2017 Getting carried away with the Freemason/Templar connection Hiram? 😁 Apparently he had to go with the Maltese cross because the chocolate balls melted in his pocket and the falcon escaped...

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@quarkwrok - Very funny - I always thought that Sydney Greenstreet had eaten more than his fair share! 👍😃

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@hiramabiff2017 - I meant to mention; he wore the 'official tracksuit' of the 2012 Summer Olympics (which London was hosting and why the UK medal winners came on at the end). So he was also 'supporting' the Maltese Team who had 5 competitors that year...

  • @corringhamdepot4434
    @corringhamdepot4434 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts last about 8 weeks. The Last Night is when everybody is allowed to be silly, after being serious for so long.

  • @a-jbrown7178
    @a-jbrown7178 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm five hours in and it's still up and it's great. Cheers Squirrel.

  • @johnmiller0000
    @johnmiller0000 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was the year Great Britain hosted the Summer Olympics.

  • @GinaBeana_Tootsie
    @GinaBeana_Tootsie ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great ❤this was very wonderful to see and hear 😃😺🐿️✌🏼

  • @johnsmith-de9wv
    @johnsmith-de9wv ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The cross is the maltese cross yes,AKA the george cross given to the island by the king george 6th , fantastic island , history
    of the second siege.

  • @DavidBrown-ut5qi
    @DavidBrown-ut5qi ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice one Tony another Gem, All the best from Wales, :)

  • @gamortie
    @gamortie ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nothing quite matches the tingle you get down your spine when the crowd comes in at the chorus of Rule Britannia….

    • @gamortie
      @gamortie ปีที่แล้ว

      Then the deceleration into the final chorus….chef’s kiss….

  • @cathyb46
    @cathyb46 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    During the proms collections are made from which they buy the carnations for orchestra & chorus and presents for the conductor and singer on the last night and also contribute the rest I understand to the musicians charity.

    • @ianjackson1674
      @ianjackson1674 ปีที่แล้ว

      Close, but not quite right. Over the whole season, Promenaders collect money for music-related and cancer-related charities. (A children's cancer charity was set up in memory of Sir Malcolm Sargent). Typically £100,000 plus raised in recent years. Collections are also made for carnation buttonholes for the orchsetra, conductor, and soloists, plus some for the promenaders themselves, and gifts for the soloists. Flowers are bought and promenaders make the buttonholes on the afternoon of the last night. Carnation money is raised by the same people, but is separate from the charity effort. In 2022 the carnations had been bought but were laid as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Second on the afternoon of what would have been the last night, on the south steps of the Royal Albert Hall.

  • @alanprice7584
    @alanprice7584 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Penned at the height of empire when Britain was bursting with pride and rightly so.

    • @stirlingmoss9637
      @stirlingmoss9637 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was a defiant anthem against the Barbary pirates who predated European coastal towns forChristian slaves to sell in the Turkish slave markets.

  • @elisamcgowan4774
    @elisamcgowan4774 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT reaction from a GREAT guy, thank you Squirrel. Love the rainbow on your baseball cap too!)..

  • @carolemiller198
    @carolemiller198 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The 1st one was No Place Like Home.

  • @corringhamdepot4434
    @corringhamdepot4434 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The solo tenor is from Malta. The white cross is the The Maltese Cross and the cross of the Order of St. John. It remains the symbol of the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta, of the Order of Saint John". It goes back to when Malta was ruled by various orders of Crusader Knights for hundreds of years.

  • @G6JPG
    @G6JPG ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The olympians selected weren't necessarily ones who could sing, they were ones whose sports were water-related, such as rowing - the sports (e. g. "sculls") were scrolled across the screen as they came in.

  • @cs8106c
    @cs8106c ปีที่แล้ว

    The tube that is blown through in the clarinet is called a reed. 👏👏🐿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @maureen348
    @maureen348 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Malta put its self under Britains protection after we rescued it from Napolian more than two hundred years ago.

  • @isabellajones-hyde9194
    @isabellajones-hyde9194 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Please do find part 1 as that has my favourite part in "The Sailors Hornpipe"

    • @derekhorne8076
      @derekhorne8076 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Absolutely! The hornpipe and Rule, Britannia! are the best parts of the Fantasia. No Place Like Hone always makes me cry!

    • @Tony_Regime
      @Tony_Regime ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the hornpipe is the highlight of the proms and the orchestra really gets to show off their skill

  • @Aoife24601
    @Aoife24601 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Cross is the Cross of Malta. Malta is a British Commo wealth Country. The instrument is the Oboe..it has the reed outside...whereas the clarinet has the reed slipped inside and hidden.carnation is the flower of the Proms. Theyre worn and sold for charity.

  • @stevehartley7504
    @stevehartley7504 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First instrument was an oboe. A woodwind instrument with a reed in the mouthpiece
    Crosse Pattee
    Heraldic Christian cross/symbol

  • @markkettlewell7441
    @markkettlewell7441 ปีที่แล้ว

    The small instrument with the tube is an oboe.

  • @Thanetian577
    @Thanetian577 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The instrument at the the start is an oboe

  • @RalphWigg1
    @RalphWigg1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Without going back to check, I think that woodwind instrument was an oboe. If I'm wrong, someone put me right.

  • @geekexmachina
    @geekexmachina ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think that there are a number of Last Night of the Proms videos and some people react to maybe one or two probably those are popular just because of the numbers of reactions. Perhaps people dont realise that they can be very different year to year.

    • @stewedfishproductions7959
      @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, elsewhere in the comments here, I suggested checking YT for "1989 Last Night of the Proms - Sarah Walker dress" - Many prepare well in advance to surprise the audience..!?

  • @ianjackson1674
    @ianjackson1674 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The carnations are just a fun thing we do on the last night to add to the party atmosphere. See my reply to someone else's comment below.

  • @stewedfishproductions7959
    @stewedfishproductions7959 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Worth searching YT for this: "1989 Last Night of the Proms - Sarah Walker dress" (Version by 'Proms-Music-Vault' for a slightly better copy). Red-White-Blue dress designed by SW with a 'surprise reveal' !!!

  • @stevebeardsmore3303
    @stevebeardsmore3303 ปีที่แล้ว

    The cross is the cross of the order of Saint John of the Hospital of Jerusalem or the Hospitallers who with the more famous Templars made up the two orders of crusader knights. Later the Hospitallers ruled Malta hence it became also known as the Maltese Cross and the singer was from Malta.

  • @maxmoore9955
    @maxmoore9955 ปีที่แล้ว

    My 1st thought, Ho fuck put kettle on. 🤣. How music can lift a person is amazing. MALTA 🇲🇹 STANDS STRONG IN BRITISH HEARTS .

  • @dinastanford7779
    @dinastanford7779 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No one in Britain knows the words to the verses of Rule Britannia, but everyone knows the chorus. The cross was the Maltese Cross from Malta.

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank You Dino

    • @dinastanford7779
      @dinastanford7779 ปีที่แล้ว

      OK 👍 😁🦖

    • @djtwo2
      @djtwo2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You need to distinguish between "no one" and "few people".

    • @G6JPG
      @G6JPG ปีที่แล้ว

      Not everyone knows that the second line of the chorus does NOT have an s in it, because it is an order ("the charter of the land" as the intro says), not a statement: "Rule, Britannia!
      Britannia - rule the waves!" - not "rules".
      It's a great tune, but the words of the verses fit it very badly, making them very hard to sing! (It's actually the only "hit single" from the ?th-century equivalent of a musical which sank without trace, at least I've never heard of it being performed in full these days [and I can't remember what it's called]. Composer Arne.)

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@G6JPG Appreciating your comment packed full of info, Thank You

  • @colinperry8824
    @colinperry8824 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    America, tha greatest country in the world doesn't have anything like this , where people gather together to sing and have a good time. I just forgot they did, it was held on that January the 6th.

  • @jeanniewarken5822
    @jeanniewarken5822 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first instrument is an oboe abd it has a double reed which is what the guys blows... clarenets have a single flat reed which is attached to tge mouthpeice.. The cross represents the George Cross which the highest award for gallantry... the civilian equivalent of our highest award for the military..the Victoria cross.. the George cross was awarded the the population of Malta for their bravery during the second world war... a great honour and one of which the Maltese people are rightly proud..

  • @PUNKinDRUBLIC72
    @PUNKinDRUBLIC72 ปีที่แล้ว

    The instrument was an oboe.

  • @deandavies9576
    @deandavies9576 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rule Britannia!

  • @maxmoore9955
    @maxmoore9955 ปีที่แล้ว

    And we are Launching 5 Rowing boats next week, slight problems with the Oars Left went Right, Right went LEFT , When used together the boat wanted to become a Submarine .We have returned to China 🇨🇳, to be fixed

  • @daviddrake3504
    @daviddrake3504 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pity they dont do the bugle calls anymore...

  • @steveselby6201
    @steveselby6201 ปีที่แล้ว

    None of these are the actual sea songs which are The saucy Arethusa, Tom Bowling, and the sailors hornpipe

  • @johnmiller0000
    @johnmiller0000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Part 1: th-cam.com/video/Pbx8TpY8KQc/w-d-xo.html

  • @davidlewis726
    @davidlewis726 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please do a reaction to these guys. Excellent musicians and a really quirky sense of humour...MNOZIL BRASS lonely boy

  • @alexandralynch5686
    @alexandralynch5686 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think the carnation had to do with cancer and the Maltese Cross.

  • @wildwhippet
    @wildwhippet ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OBOE!!!

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank You couldn’t remember the name

  • @AlexandraLynch-x1v
    @AlexandraLynch-x1v 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This singer is from Malta the only place given St George Cross for bravery l.

  • @anoldfogeysfun
    @anoldfogeysfun ปีที่แล้ว +2

    FYI - Regarding your query about any YT creator and problems with the BBC, Tony . . . Back in the day (early 50's I think?) when televisions first came out here and became a thing, we only had the 1 channel on them to watch at first - the BBC . . . This, through the government of the day made it an Ad-Free public service broadcaster - and so the licence fee began for the general public to pay for it to watch its programmes . . . very limited ones at first, naturally, due mainly to the size of the large sized camera technology doing the recordings - until they became smaller versions that could also try and cover outside broadcasts, too . . .
    Well, things weren't too bad for a good few decades really - as they took our money and made some excellent programmes for us all to watch - Comedies, Drama, Sport, Documentaries, Quizzes, Sci-Fi, & the news given out could then even be trusted . . . Jump forward to the last 20 or so years, and the once honest and unbiased BBC has now become more pro left leaning, and also very woke! So their opinion on anything cannot be trusted any longer by the majority of people! . . . Their annual funding via licence fee was taking in between 2-4 Billion - but people have become fed-up with how it's now run and are refusing to pay for it. So there is a bit of a battle going on at present about making them either fund themselves like the other stations now through ads, or to go to more online . . .
    Their issue, is that they want "everyone" to pay for it, but a lot of people nowadays use streaming services that they pay for and don't watch the BBC at all . . . and so the general fightback began. More so as the money taken in now go mainly towards celebrity and other various Presenters salaries - including the top bosses, of course! --- and very little of it apparently goes towards any good programmes now. Those being of either more and more Reality crap appearing - Celeb shows with only Celeb guests - or many repeats of things again and again - and their better sport options were also lost to the likes of Sky, etc . . .
    Money wise, they always hid the fact that they made a hell of a lot of money through selling/leasing - any of their programmes to countries overseas . . . and nowadays, they also have BBC channels in many countries abroad - which even sell advertising space on them . . . Which rakes in around 1-2 Billion a year - (but, mainly from the programmes that we here in the UK had been funding all of that time. And yet, the licence fee only ever went upwards - any of that income from abroad was never used to deduct what was paid for the fee here!) - And so, the BBC today is all about greed and money, left-wing politics, and wokism . . . One of the main reasons why anyone hoping to show and react to any BBC programmes on YT get blocked by them - as they don't like losing money on anything at all - which we paid for - but have never seen any of it coming back to us in any way . . . So, I'm also one of those people who have refused to pay for a company I no longer support or watch for a good few years now . . . (I hope that I was able to offer you a little bit of info about them, Tony?)

  • @postiekeefveness4415
    @postiekeefveness4415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the tunes but I don't really like cover bands😃

  • @4yaears
    @4yaears ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude, seriously, you’re busy on your phone…

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Seriously I’m not. When I look down I’m taking notes which I then reference after the song. I didn’t know what you meant then I watched and saw and was like ah I can see that it looks like that. Since I don’t interrupt musical reactions and let them play through I write down bullet points. Go to 12:22 you’ll see me reading the questions I wrote down and giving my thoughts.

    • @4yaears
      @4yaears ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheRealSquirrel ah I see, my apologies. I’m a fan btw so thanks for clarifying.

    • @TheRealSquirrel
      @TheRealSquirrel  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@4yaears of course and I appreciate your support. Have a great rest of the day!

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the singer was just wearing a team GB track suit ........ not an athlete ! I think the athletes were all from the GB olympic sailing team ?.... hence 'rules the waves

  • @Bazroshan
    @Bazroshan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I suppose it does a bit for national cohesion but I'm not really keen on flag-waving.

    • @ianpunter4486
      @ianpunter4486 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too....but let them have their fun I guess

  • @Midlifecrisis-g6u
    @Midlifecrisis-g6u ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry Squirrel, i have had my fill of Conservatives and although i can appreciate the musicians, the crowd here are entitled and proud of their elitism.

  • @charlieyerrell9146
    @charlieyerrell9146 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you look squirrel there are flags from many countries. Maltese Cross from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean,

  • @brianhancock5592
    @brianhancock5592 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey look squirrel love your reactions ...