Prom 76 (8.9.12): Last Night of the Proms 2012

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's a long time ago, but the Arne-Sargent 'baroque-style' Rule Britannia had some very interesting soloists
and their costumes caused much interest at the time. The Unionjack was bound to be about their person somewhere and I just wish I could remember their names. I may look at the Proms Archive later.

Norma Procter? (I think I remember an LP from the '70s with a photo of her in full Britannia costume on the cover.)

[salymap]

Norma Procter? (I think I remember an LP from the '70s with a photo of her in full Britannia costume on the cover.)

Yes ferney, good idea, I've found a BBCMM CD of the 1961 last night with Constance Shacklock, but no pic of her costume. Other soloist Gina Bachaeur, playing the Grieg PC. Think I was there......

[BBMmk2]

I think that at last the BBC have listened to what the public like about LNOP and I for one applaud this years!!

[JFLL]

I remember in the 1950s being at a rehearsal taken by Cameron when there was a long serious discussion about whether 'The Old Folks at Home' should be dropped as the year before a naughty member of the audience threw pennies at the solo cellist.

We all thought it hilarious but it's a wonder it's still played now, laws being so tight on safety.

Do I remember rightly, or am I imagining it, that at the end of Home Sweet Home a prommer once produced a dog-like howl?

[salymap]

Do I remember rightly, or am I imagining it, that at the end of Home Sweet Home a prommer once produced a dog-like howl?

I don't remember that but I do remember being told NEVER to call it 'Home, sweet home' but 'The old folks, etc. I think it's American isn't it?Anyway, either title does, I should think.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't remember that but I do remember being told NEVER to call it 'Home, sweet home' but 'The old folks, etc. I think it's American isn't it?Anyway, either title does, I should think.

Surely "The Old Folks at Home" and "Home Sweet Home" are two completely different songs.

Way down upon the Swanee River... definitely American

Home Sweet Home - Music by Henry Bishop (English), but words by an American (? Payne)

[Roslynmuse]

Surely "The Old Folks at Home" and "Home Sweet Home" are two completely different songs.

Way down upon the Swanee River... definitely American

Home Sweet Home - Music by Henry Bishop (English), but words by an American (? Payne)

Indeed; Home Sweet Home comes from an opera, Clari, of 1823. The Old Folks at Home is by Stephen Foster and dates from 1851.

[Stanley Stewart]

Merely a hunch but wasn't it Sarah Walker who removed a wrap-around cloak to reveal a full Brittania costume at a Last Night Prom?

[french frank]

Merely a hunch but wasn't it Sarah Walker who removed a wrap-around cloak to reveal a full Brittania costume at a Last Night Prom?

This?

[salymap]

And I seem to remember Bryn Terfel in a unionjack waistcoat on the last night. Wrong again perhaps

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't like the way it looks as if this concert is being used to plug Ms Benedetti's latest 'album' - she was on breakfast telly plugging it with the "Gadfly" 'Romance' the other day, and surprise surprise there it is on the last night programme...

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I don't like the way it looks as if this concert is being used to plug Ms Benedetti's latest 'album' - she was on breakfast telly plugging it with the "Gadfly" 'Romance' the other day, and surprise surprise there it is on the last night programme...

I'm afraid this isn't new. In recent years releases of discs by Terfel and Lang Lang, to mention only two, have piggy-backed on the LNOP.

[salymap]

I don't like the way it looks as if this concert is being used to plug Ms Benedetti's latest 'album' - she was on breakfast telly plugging it with the "Gadfly" 'Romance' the other day, and surprise surprise there it is on the last night programme...

I have a private name for her after a departed one's unfortunate comment on the MBs some time ago. I will say no more

[amateur51]

In the past, hasn't the Last Night concert been recorded and released on LP and then on cassette and now on CD, for sale in temples of retail therapy

[Nick Armstrong]

I have a private name for her after a departed one's unfortunate comment on the MBs some time ago. I will say no more

For a private name... a PM saly?? Do tell in an electronic billet doux.... just entre nous...