The Proms

Always shed a tear to Land Of Hope And Glory. Bloody love it.

By the way, is it just me, but i'm sure as a child 15 years ago - that the finale was at least midnight - am i imagining things?
 
Do you have to have ticket stubs from at least three concerts and camp overnight or something to get in? In any case, I'm jealous. Have fun!

I'll be watching the Monteverdi; it seems ages since a chamber concert was the main bill and it sounRAB like it'll be interesting visually with John Eliot Gardiner positioning the choir around different parts of the hall
 
But you don't need to do anything to join, in fact there's nothing to join! I don't like going to live concerts as I find them distracting. All you need is a CD and preferably a pair of headphones and then you can be a member of a one-person club. Just you and the music.

I really don't care at all if people like musicals over other things. As you say, it can be a step in the right direction at least. I was just a bit disappointed that after all the televised Prom concerts we've had, plus the ones on the radio, it was the R&H one that has received the most feedback. It's no surprise really as obviously it's popular, but I personally believe that, as music, there have been much greater things on offer. No-one but me even commented on the Symphonie Fantastique, one of the greatest, and most influential, products of 19th century Romanticism and which was shown on TV a week or so ago.
 
No, it felt really intimate in person - the promenade area felt particularly small. I think telly does that though - I go to a lot of snooker at the Crucible, and every time I go I hear someone saying 'oh my god it looks so much smaller than on telly!' But I loved the hall, it felt so special. Not enough ladies' toilets though!
 
I booked for six different concerts when booking originally opened (actually have been to several more than that that I just turned up to on the day); you only need five to qualify and then you could tick a box to enter the draw to be allowed to buy Last Night tickets. Got lucky in that draw and then made sure I was ready and waiting when the actual ticket buying opened to the draw winners about a week later. Was allowed to buy two seats and again I got lucky and managed to get the Stalls ...
 
I cannot understand what you are talking about. You didn't watch it so how can you possibly say that they can't do musicals. Most of them are musical theatre stars! And they were all fantastic, even the four men from the Maida Vale choir who sang Nothing Like A Dame!

Julian Ovenden was particularly fine!
 
Probably not outraged by the 'fun' but personally I would be questioning exactly WHY this sort of music/performer gets a look in at a classical music festival??
 
No, I see what you're saying, but when someone relatively new comments that they loved something, and then the established fans dismiss it as rubbish, the new person can really feel as if they're being called stupid.
 
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