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Post by julesd68 on Apr 17, 2019 8:45:16 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2019 8:49:57 GMT
Is it that time already?
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 17, 2019 11:54:24 GMT
That's what I thought!
Very little for me on first scan ...
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Post by Slinger on Apr 17, 2019 12:00:32 GMT
How can they have what is described as a " Series of interstellar concerts," without Hawkwind?  The Sol Gabetta program looks rather good, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason has surrounded the Elgar with a few unusual choices. |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2019 15:41:44 GMT
Prom 4: The Planets looks like a good programme.
Prom 6: The Rite of Spring - would love this, but how to persuade Ruth to go?
Prom 26: Mozart Requiem
There are a few others, too. I've seen worse programmes.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 9, 2019 10:08:50 GMT
OK chaps, the Proms arguments continue with a double whammy from the Guardian, here ... and here. I agree you don't want to turn it into a corporate jolly but from my experience it is still really about us proles having a good time, so I'm not so worried on that score. I can understand the argument that there is little in the programme to really 'challenge the ears.' Actually I didn't find much appealing at all but I might have attended a couple in August had I been able to. I would go along with the headline 'There's little here to challenge or that feels exceptional'.
Here's the central point IMO - 'The idea of sugaring the pill of contemporary music by including challenging scores in concerts of standard repertory works, which was such a successful policy of the Proms for so long, seems to have been abandoned almost completely.' 100% agree with this - a lot of contemporary music I would only sample if accompanied by something 'historical' that was right up my street. |
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Post by zippy on Jul 9, 2019 10:35:15 GMT
That's what I thought! Very little for me on first scan ... I can't see much of interest either at the moment, just the usual things (Planets etc) |
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Post by Slinger on Jul 9, 2019 12:51:09 GMT
To attract the classic Proms demographic, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus, one needs stuff that man has actually heard of, and will keep him coming back for more. There has to be a large dollop of Classic FM fare. I wouldn't suggest sitting a first-timer, or someone who "likes a bit of classical" down in front of an orchestra and firing Schnittke or Schoenberg at them.
Impresario Robert Newman, who was running similar concerts at His Majesty's Theatre told Henry Wood...
"I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages. Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music."
Wood took that on board, and between them they ran with the idea. It's still running, and still pretty much adhering to Newman's original model.
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 16, 2019 19:25:30 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Sept 16, 2019 20:54:43 GMT
Ah, that was the one with the phones left on. I kept seeing bits of it on the BBC arts news slots today but never actually saw what the concert was. Apparently they were bunging out Tweet sized bits of info on the performers, composers, etc.
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