Prom 33: Elgar / Holst / Stanford / Vaughan Williams, BBC SO, Maltman / Brabbins

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  • oliver sudden
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    • Feb 2024
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    #76
    Originally posted by smittims View Post
    a classic 'they think it's all over' moment.
    Hopefully not getting as far as “it is now!”…


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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
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      #77
      Originally posted by oliver sudden View Post

      Hopefully not getting as far as “it is now!”…

      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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      • silvestrione
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        • Jan 2011
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        #78
        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.
        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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        • edashtav
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          • Jul 2012
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          #79
          Originally posted by smittims View Post
          Applause 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.
          A classic story. Cheers, or should that read claps smittims?

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
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            #80
            Originally posted by edashtav View Post

            A classic story. Cheers, or should that read claps smittims?
            Sounds applausible.

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            • edashtav
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              • Jul 2012
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              #81
              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

              Sounds applausible.
              A world full of puns dates both of us.
              Last edited by edashtav; 15-08-24, 23:25.

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              • Serial_Apologist
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                • Dec 2010
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                #82
                Originally posted by edashtav View Post

                A world full of puns dates both us.

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                • LMcD
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                  • Sep 2017
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                  #83
                  Anybody who has yet to hear this wonderful concert (or would like to hear it again) can do so on this afternoon's 'Classical Live'.

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                  • Pulcinella
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                    • Feb 2014
                    • 10877

                    #84
                    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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                    • edashtav
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                      • Jul 2012
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                      #85
                      A compilation of refurbished golden oldies.

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                      • oliver sudden
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                        • Feb 2024
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                        #86
                        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.
                        The end of the Dad’s Army episode ‘Branded’ is for me almost unbearable to watch, having read about Arnold Ridley’s CV not just in the Second World War but the First.

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                        • Pulcinella
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                          • Feb 2014
                          • 10877

                          #87
                          Originally posted by edashtav View Post
                          A compilation of refurbished golden oldies.
                          But apparently never previously released.

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                          • edashtav
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                            • Jul 2012
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                            #88
                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                            But apparently never previously released.
                            Thst's surprising!

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                            • Barbirollians
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                              • Nov 2010
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                              #89
                              Only listened to the excellent first half so far . Heffer is far more illuminating about English music than politics. Looking forward to VW this morning.

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                              • LMcD
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                                • Sep 2017
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                                #90
                                Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                                Only listened to the excellent first half so far . Heffer is far more illuminating about English music than politics. Looking forward to VW this morning.
                                Ain't that the truth!

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