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

[oliver sudden]

a classic 'they think it's all over' moment.

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

https://youtu.be/lg2CXkJVCHk?feature=shared

[LMcD]

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

https://youtu.be/lg2CXkJVCHk?feature=shared

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.

[silvestrione]

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.

[edashtav]

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?

[Serial_Apologist]

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

Sounds applausible.

[edashtav]

Sounds applausible.

A world full of puns dates both of us.

[Serial_Apologist]

A world full of puns dates both us.

[LMcD]

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'.

[Pulcinella]

A new release which contains the orchestral version of Hammersmith:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9640622--gustav-holst-s-vitri-the-planets-the-perfect-fool-ballet-suite

[edashtav]

A compilation of refurbished golden oldies.

[oliver sudden]

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.

[Pulcinella]

A compilation of refurbished golden oldies.

But apparently never previously released.

[edashtav]

But apparently never previously released.

Thst's surprising!

[Barbirollians]

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.

[LMcD]

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!