Queen's Jubilee Concert

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I can't say I'm surprised at the line-up, but it's disappointing.

Mind you, given that the orchestra and choir for the 2002 gig were treated with contempt by the personnel on the day, I'm not sorry that I don't have to decide whether to bother this time. Getting involved in anything royal is usually far less fun than you'd think.

[BBMmk2]

Be one concert to avoid! Perhaps a thread should be started up about what music should be there and or artists?

[amateur51]

I know that Nick Clegg is keen on Schubert lieder. He was taught German at school by the same person (Richard Stokes) who taught Ian Bostridge.

**Name drop alert** Richard Stokes once complimented me on my German pronunciation over the phone - I was reading out some lieder titles to him :proud emoticon:

[Mr Pee]

Mary
That’s exactly what I thought when I read the OP. I can’t imagine any other countries marking the similar occasion with a concert of ‘thoroughly well established’ pop singers and a bestselling classical performer who is not even their own. No traditional music, no new works composed for the occasion? I’d have thought this is one concert that could be organised without any concern for profit and could show off the country’s Culture and Art. Have they (whoever thought about it) no respect for the Queen? Or for the country for that matter?

Oh for goodness sake, lighten up everybody. I won't be bothered about this concert, so I'll not watch or listen to it, although I dare say it will be quite a spectacle, regardless of the music itself. It may not be your cup of tea, but you can guarantee millions will enjoy it. If you don't like it, go and do something else. Not everything has to appeal to the rarefied artistic tastes that you seem so intent on foisting onto the great unwashed . Let them have their plebeian pleasures whilst you stick on some Stockhausen.

[amateur51]

Not everything has to appeal to the rarefied artistic tastes that you seem so intent on foisting onto the great unwashed . Let them have their plebeian pleasures whilst you stick on some Stockhausen.

ooooh inversely patronising, Mr Pee - not often you see that

[Mary Chambers]

**Name drop alert** Richard Stokes once complimented me on my German pronunciation over the phone - I was reading out some lieder titles to him :proud emoticon:

Oooh I'd name-drop too, if that happened to me.

[Chris Newman]

As a republican I am bored already.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

....wot no Stan Tracey, no Kenny Wheeler .... Julian Joseph has an interesting fusion thing on the go ....

[MrGongGong]

....wot no Stan Tracey, no Kenny Wheeler .... Julian Joseph has an interesting fusion thing on the go ....

Evan Parker on the roof of Buckingham Palace would be a fine thing indeed !

[cloughie]

Let them have their plebeian pleasures whilst you stick on some Stockhausen.

Didn't Beecham do that?

[Flosshilde]

The bad news for Her Maj is that she will be forced to watch it whether she wants to or not. The rest of us do at least have the blessing of the 'off'' switch.

I don't think she's forced to do anything she doesn't want to (well, except for meeting Margaret Thatcher & Tony Blair once a week for about thirteen years each ). I believe that at the last jubilee concert she popped out for a brief listen & then went back in to put her feet up in front of Coronation Street.

[french frank]

If my memory serves were there not separate pop and classical bashes in 2002!

Perhaps there will be a Jubilee Prom, attended by Herself and the Radio 3-loving Prince?

[doversoul1]

Perhaps there will be a Jubilee Prom, attended by Herself and the Radio 3-loving Prince?

…and they may turn that into …

[Flosshilde]

Perhaps there will be a Jubilee Prom, attended by Herself and the Radio 3-loving Prince?

Featuring music by Parry?

[Pabmusic]

Featuring music by Parry?

That Charles 'didn't know much about till recently'?