SMP repeatedly (on at least 4 occasions) informed us this morning that she would be playing Sena Jurinac singing Strauss's Four Last Songs. As the time ticked away after 8.30 (patronising conversation with a nice vicar from the West Country, snippet of Britten's Spring Symphony, last movement of Sibelius Violin Concerto, easy listening Tarentella thing, Rob telling us that SMP was a very good dancer, SMP telling Rob off etc etc), I was thinking that I was unaware that Jurinac held the speed record for the 4 Last Songs. Of course we were eventually treated to just the last of them. I suppose I should have expected nothing else.
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Are you sure she didn't say 'the last Last Song'?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
Ha! No, I'm afraid she said 'Four Last Songs' quite often enough for me to be certain that I had not misheard. It was only on the last occasion, when pre-announcing, that she finally revealed what by then I had deduced, that we were going to hear only the Last Last Song. Being Jurinac, it was of course glorious, but what a shame that even on this occasion the fitting tribute of playing all four was deemed too much for the Breakfast audience.Comment
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