Prom 33: Elgar / Holst / Stanford / Vaughan Williams, BBC SO, Maltman / Brabbins
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Originally posted by oliver sudden View Post
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
What I didn't know in 1966 was that Kenneth Wolstenholme completed more than 100 highly dangerous sorties over Occupied Europe and in May 1944 was awarded the DFC, plus a bar in the following year.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostApplause between movements is so common now that I've wondered if they think they're expected to do it. I noticed this at the Wigglesworth Elgar 2 (after every movement) and a few years ago when a British orchestra and conductor (maybe from the BBC) did Beethoven's Ninth at the Dubai (or was if Bahrein?) Proms . The audience applauded in the middle of the finale (after 'vor Gott!') , a classic 'they think it's all over' moment.
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A new release which contains the orchestral version of Hammersmith:
Gustav Holst: Sāvitri; the Planets; the Perfect Fool Ballet Suite. Somm: ARIADNE5030-2. Buy 2 CDs or download online. Arda Mandikian (soprano), Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, English Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra, Michael Jefferies, Honor Sheppard, Nona Liddell, Pauline Stevens, Ian Partridge, Purcell Singers, Bbc Symphony Orchestra, Nbc Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra & Women’s Chorus, Sir...
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Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
No! I didn't know that. I suppose it was fairly common, right up to the 80s, to suddenly learn that people you knew in other contexts were, though quiet about for various possible reasons, what you might call 'war heroes', in that sense. The Head of Maths in the school I joined in 1982 was a survivor from the Battle of Britain, a spitfire pilot. I think he felt the rest of his life had been an ant-climax, in some senses.
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