Giuseppe Verdi quotes from " La Marseillaise " in his patriotic anthem Hymn of the Nations, which also incorporates " God Save the King " and " Il Canto degli Italiani ".

Giuseppe Verdi, in his Inno delle Nazioni ( Hymn of the Nations ), composed for the London International Exhibition of 1862, chose Il Canto degli Italiani and not the Marcia Reale to represent Italy, putting it beside God Save the Queen and La Marseillaise.

He even wrote his own orchestral arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner, which was incorporated into the NBC Symphony's performances of Verdi's Hymn of the Nations.

In December 1943, Toscanini made a 31-minute film for the United States Office of War Information called Hymn of the Nations, directed by Alexander Hammid.

It was mostly filmed in NBC's Studio 8-H and consists of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony in a performance of Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Verdi's " Hymn of the Nations " ( Inno delle nazioni ), which contains national anthems of England, France, and Italy ( the World War I allied nations ), to which Toscanini added the Soviet " Internationale " and " The Star Spangled Banner ".

By this time the " Internationale " had been cut from the 1943 film, but the complete " Hymn of the Nations " can still be heard in all releases of the audio recording of the film issued by RCA.

This film was released on VHS and in 2004 on the same DVD with Hymn of the Nations.

** Hymn of the Nations

Lerner was also producer of the OWI documentary Hymn of the Nations ( 1944 ), directed by Alexander Hammid, and featuring Arturo Toscanini, and co-director with Joseph Strick of the short documentary Muscle Beach ( 1948 ).

* Hymn of the Nations ( 1944 ) ( producer ) ( uncredited )

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

This was replaced only five years later by the first " Christadelphian Hymn Book " ( 1869 ), compiled by J. J. and A. Andrew, and this was revised and expanded in 1874, 1932 and 1964.

The phrase " Cretans, always liars " was quoted by the poet Callimachus in his Hymn to Zeus, with the same theological intent as Epimenides:

Puccini's 1919 Inno a Roma ( Hymn to Rome ), although not written for the Fascists, was widely played during Fascist street parades and public ceremonies.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.

The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Charles Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity.

Another version, in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and in an Orphic hymn, states that Artemis was born before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia, and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth there to Apollo.

Hymn singing, though, was not without controversy, particularly within the official church, the Church of England.

The ubiquitous Red and Black Sandinista flag was used during the election process along with the pink as it was one of the colours of a campaign that finished its popular appearances with John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance and the Sandinista Hymn " fighting against Yanqui agressors, enemies of humanity.

During the Winter Olympics, the National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) of the constituent countries had not yet been affiliated to the IOC, so the Olympic Flag was used in place of a national flag at the Opening Ceremony and at medals ceremonies, and the Olympic Hymn was played for gold medallists.

Where an EUN individual won a medal, the national flag of the medallist's nation was raised rather than the Olympic flag, and a gold medallist's national anthem was played rather than the Olympic Hymn.

1, A Hymn to the Virgin ( 1930 ) and a set of choral variations A Boy was Born, written in 1933 for the BBC Singers, who first performed it the following year.

Though the Greek myth of Semele was localized in Thebes, the fragmentary Homeric Hymn to Dionysus makes the place where Zeus gave a second birth to the god a distant one, and mythically vague:

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia, who was coming from the Hyperboreans in the far north, to prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, because the father was Zeus.

Celeus or Keleus () was the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology, husband of Metaneira and father of several daughters, who are called Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

Karl Kerenyi points out that the older tales mentioned two dragons, who were perhaps intentionally conflated ; the other was a female dragon ( drakaina ) named Delphyne in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, with whom dwelt a male serpent named Typhon: " The narrators seem to have confused the dragon of Delphi, Python, with Typhon or Typhoeus, the adversary of Zeus ".

Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, " mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one " of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios ( the Sun ), Selene ( the Moon ), and Eos ( the Dawn ).

The first-known poem in English by a Welshman was Hymn to the Virgin written c. 1470 by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal.

By contrast, Leto labored for nine nights and nine days for Apollo, according to the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in the presence of all the first among the deathless goddesses as witnesses: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and the " loud-moaning " sea-goddess Amphitrite.

The metaphor of a pearl appears in the longer Hymn of the Pearl, a poem respected for its high literary quality, and use of layered theological metaphor, found within one of the texts of Gnosticism.

* February 1 – American Civil War: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.

Many of Heidegger's works from the 1930s onwards include meditations on lines from Hölderlin's poetry, and several of the lecture courses are devoted to the reading of a single poem ( see, for example, Hölderlin's Hymn " The Ister ").

* Hymn In seiner Ordnung schafft der Herr for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op.

On it are inscribed Holst's dates, and an epitaph, taken from the text of The Hymn of Jesus, reading " The heavenly spheres make music for us ".

He also used another pipe organ for " The Only Way ( Hymn )" from Tarkus.

Nowhere amongst us is the mystic relation of the seed-corn of Demeter, whose poignant grief for her daughter threatens to bring famine on mankind ( Hymn to Cer.

Verse 19 of the Karpuradistotram ( Hymn to Kali ) lists humans as one of the species that are acceptable for sacrifice to the goddess.

In the Homeric Hymn of Demeter, Demeter in the guise of an old woman as she searches for the abducted Persephone refuses red wine but accepts a drink of barley, water, and pennyroyal called kykeon.

During the 1950s, the Choir made its first tour of Europe and earned a Grammy for its recording of " Battle Hymn of the Republic ".

In 1960 the Choir won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus at that year's awards ceremony with a recording of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " that replaced the line " let us die to make men free " with " let us live to make men free.

In the song " Hymn for a Sunday Evening ", a family of viewers expresses their regard for the program in worshipful tones.

* Bye Bye Birdie — Dick Van Dyke singing " Put On A Happy Face ", Chita Rivera singing " Spanish Rose ", Paul Lynde singing " Kids " and " Hymn for a Sunday Evening ( Ed Sullivan )".

** Ho Yeow Sun 何耀珊 ( born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Ho Rheu San ), Singer ; First and only Asian singer to top the US Billboard Dance Chart and the UK MusicWeek Chart ; Performed the Olympic Hymn, which was sung in Mandarin for the first time, accompanied by a choir of Overseas Chinese from 16 different nationalities for 2008 Beijing Olympics