I agree not very fluent or congruent, but singable with proper rehearsal…
Prom 73: The Last Night, BBC SO / BBC SC / BBC Singers, Blue / Hough / Oramo
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Originally posted by OtherwiseSatis View PostDid Katie really just say "the atmosphere on the Last Night never fails to disappoint"? Ooops. Although...
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Originally posted by Darkbloom View Post
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud! Katie's Freudian slip was showing there. Either that or she's been a mole in the pay of an undisclosed forumista all this time and has been hired to drop these remarks occasionally to undermine the organisation from within.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
It summed up what I was feeling . After 3.5 hours of this tediothon I watched out of habit I’m now with the forumites I took issue with at the beginning of this thread . They were right- I was wrong . The Last Night badly needs a fundamental rethink. There was too much bitty medium quality music last with the two new commissions rather weak - despite some excellent performances . Too much American music - when the two best British pieces are the Elgar Parry orchestration and the Britten National Anthem you know you have a quality problem . I’m also not a big fan of Stephen Hough’s arrangements - he has a habit of using very wide piano voicing -low bass , high treble that never sounds right to me and I don’t like his reharmonisations . Either stick with the original four chord stuff or really go for it. Phenomenal pianist obviously though and I did like that encore.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Postwhen the two best British pieces are the Elgar Parry orchestration and the Britten National Anthem you know you have a quality problem .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.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
That merits an immediate repeat ...
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
I decided to spend the evening watching the director's cut of 'Amadeus' and am pleased to report that everybody performed just as well as they did when I last watched it.
Key text Swafford The Reign Of Love - must get round to actually reading it rather tHan skimming.
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Originally posted by Prommer View PostShe fluffed the words at one point too, despite having them on her stand.
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I liked Angel Blue’s singing a lot. Hough defended the one movement thing on Twitter back in the spring - saying that the choice of that Andsnte was his - when asked would he not rather have played the whole concerto especially with the finale that probably would have gone down a storm he did not reply .
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