Alfie Boe and Lang Lang - give me strength . If we are lucky I imagine we will also get Lesley Garrett singing some show tunes and the BBC Concert Orchestra will be conducted by Charles Hazlewood - that is if Sue perkins is not available .
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI cannot agree on this one. I look at the situation in schools where so many opt for the utterly crass (though well-meaning) Sing-Up programme, basically bringing children up on dumbed-down "poppy" ditties, with a guitar and drums backing track, or led in concert by an attention-seeking ageing hippy.
So many children never experience classical music at all because of cowardly educationalists. And now HM's advisers are doing the same.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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In reply to Mr GongGong:
I suggest that the problem is not the emphasis on performance, but the interpretation of that as putting on mid Atlantic musicals.
My former school (a state grammar school in Lancashire) is offering all year 7 and 8 pupils free instrumental tuition, funded by donations made by alumni. I caught the second part of the Junior School Concert last year and was very impressed both by the standard of performance and the type of music being played: I had feared it was going to be a succession of drum and guitar ensembles, but far from it!
Singing is, of course, cheap to organise, and there was a lot of it going on then I was at school in the late 60's and early 70's, but it was Schutz, Brahms, Faure, Britten, and Gilbert and Sullivan (OK, I know!) rather than musicals. They were hardly the hippest things to be performing circa 1970, but I suppose they appealed to the popular culture refuseniks (or perhaps even encouraged us to be such).Comment
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Perhaps they will surprise and announce that Lang Lang and Alfie Boe will be performing Schubert's Winterreise and some late VW songs !Originally posted by Mr Pee View PostWe're all doomed!! Doomed, I tells ye!!
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That be icing on the cake!!!!!Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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The tediously predictable and wearisomely sad line-up for this event is surely such as to make one wonder why anyone who would beign to put it together might think that there's any longer a need for a Master of the Queen's Music these days.
I recall the memorial service for Diana, Princess of Wales, on which occasion neither Elton John (again!) nor John Tavener could even be bothered to write something specially for the occasion, preferring instead respectively to blow a candle out with someone else's wind and dredge up a "here's-one-I-made-earlier" song written in someone else's memory; as I remember, there was some talk (though with how much foundation I know not) that the then Master of the Queen's Music (PMD's predecessor in the rôle) was quitedly asked NOT to write anything for it.
No - whilst I'm not a Republican per se, I confess that, speaking as a composer, royalty means on thing only - a vital payment from MCPS/PRS - a stance from which the prospect of the Jubilee concert does less than nothing to dissuade me, I fear...Comment
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I do find this snobbery toward Alfie Boe and Lang Lang deeply tiresome, and I cannot understand it. I can only assume it is because they are popular, and therefore somehow beneath the rarefied tastes of Radio 3 listeners. If they are bringing Classical Music to a wider audience, what on earth is the problem? Perhaps Alfie will perform this at the Jubilee Concert:-
Would that meet with approval? Sounds pretty good to me.
And here's a bit of Lang Lang for good measure:-
Here's a pianist who has inspired some 40 million Chinese children to take up the piano, and introduced many millions to Western classical music. He undertakes all manner of outreach programmes to bring music to a wider audience. And he has been nominated for a Grammy award.
Who says Classical music is elitist? Most contributors to this thread, apparently.......
Last edited by Mr Pee; 13-02-12, 19:56.Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain.Comment
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No. It's more than that. If Alfie Boe and Lang Lang were not so popular with the Classic FM/ Radio 2 audience, I can pretty much guarantee that they would not attract a fraction of the derision that we see on these boards. It's really all rather depressing.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostSnobbery?
Not just a difference of opinion, Mr Pee?
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You are too modest, Mr P. You know as well as I do wherefore it comes!Originally posted by Mr Pee View Post
Thanks for that - as good as I've heard. He really is a superb technician: unparalleled in my view with the gentler repertoire.Originally posted by Mr Pee View Post
And here's a bit of Lang Lang for good measure:-
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