The Proms

I don't like Jamie Cullum, but I don't see how the odd Prom with 'lighter' music is a problem. It's not as if it's Girls Aloud or something - they are musicians with an orchestra. Michael Ball did a Prom a couple of years ago too.
 
Loving this 'Roger's and Hammerstein' night at The Proms and I'm not really the sort of person into classical music, it caught my ear as I was channel surfing. :p

The acoustics in the Royal Albert Hall are great.
 
Yes, the Brahms is a bit of a desert island disk. I agree about the Mahler, though the last 3 and a half hours are fairly good.:D
We are also doing James Macmillan's new St John Passion with himself conducting - that should be very exciting with choral glissandi etc. I like quite a lot of his stuff.
 
I haven't watched this yet as I was out last night. However I am looking forward to seeing/hearing Julian Ovenden who played Inspector Foyle's son in Foyle's War.

Send In The Clowns was written originally for Glynis Johns and was written without long notes so a non-singer could perform it!
 
I half agree, but then I remind myself that it is a fairly early work and that it is later generations that have put all the weight of destiny on it ....... he was a contemporary of Haydn, not Wagner. I went for a long time not really liking Beethoven (more of a rennaisance/baroque man - an organist) finding him too bombastic and relentless. Have started to learn some of the piano sonatas - much more approachable.
 
This woman is the current Christine in Phantom 2: Love Never Dies in the West End. I think she's better in that than she is at R&H.
 
I agree it's supposed to be popular, you wouldn't feed truffles to pigs, but there's a fine line between being popular and being dumbed down.

:)
 
If only Brendel hadn't retired ;) I remember a Chopin recital that Evgeny Kissin gave at the Proms one year, just one man and one piano and you could hear a pin drop, so I concede that it can work, and in fact, YES, they should do it more often. You just need a really magnetic pianist. Argerich, someone like that.

Found some bits on Youtube. The Kissin concert was 1997 apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AjLofhBs8

Playing Liszt. I guess it was an encore.
 
LNotP always makes me glad I'm British, and live in Britain.

Let's face it, although it's not perfect, we're still much better off than the vast majority of people living in most other countries. A good triumphant celebration is nice to have.
 
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