Prom 73: The Last Night, BBC SO / BBC SC / BBC Singers, Blue / Hough / Oramo

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  • Andrew Slater
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    • Mar 2007
    • 1790

    Originally posted by Prommer View Post

    Can anyone help witn the question - who is the presenter who begins this broadcast? It is from the Proms in 1987 - Reggie Goodall's last stand conducting Parsifal Act 3.
    Yes, it's John Holmstrom.

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    • Ein Heldenleben
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      • Apr 2014
      • 6736

      Originally posted by Andrew Slater View Post

      Yes, it's John Holmstrom.
      Thanks I’ve been racking my brains….

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      • Petrushka
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 12232

        Originally posted by Andrew Slater View Post

        Yes, it's John Holmstrom.
        I remember that famous occasion when JH was the announcer at a Prom on the evening when the piano got stuck as it was being lifted on to the stage in readiness for a performance of the Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto. Unable, for some reason, to hand back to Broadcasting House he had to fill in for something like half an hour. He eventually got round to reading the racing results and the cricket scores! Absolute legend!
        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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        • seabright
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          • Jan 2013
          • 625

          ^^^ John Holmstrong's comments during that very Prom can be heard in this retrospective documentary ...

          On 10 August 1995, the 100th Anniversary of the Proms was marked by a concert in which Barry Wordsworth conducted the New Queen's Hall Orchestra with Howard ...


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          • Prommer
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 1258

            Thanks, chaps!

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