A few days to go...

[Ferretfancy]

When did you first prom Ferret? I started back in 1948, YES alongtime ago, and believe you started about then, still at school?

I can't get there any more but I applaud your positive attitude to the concerts and these MBs.

Say 'hello' to the old place for me, I love the RAH and have some very good memories

EDIT - I've got a nasty feeling Ferret that I've mixed you up with Ferney and added some years to your age. I just know SOMEONE admitted to 1948 when I did

Yes Saly, it was 1948 and I was still at school rising 13 at the time! We used to go up in the gallery in the hope of escaping the notorious echo. It was only later that I went down to the Arena. I remember Sargent and Basil Cameron, Moiseiwitsch and Ida Haendel, and a little later on Barbirolli. I have a vivid memory of being right down at the rail just behind the podium when he conducted La Mer, up to then I only knew it from records, so it knocked me out !

Apart from a couple of years doing National Service overseas I have managed at least a few Proms every summer, but in the last decade or so I have had more spare evenings and the Season Pass has been so useful.

Part of the pleasure of promming is that you tend to have a favourite space in the hall ( not down the front!) and each year you meet up with kindred spirits, some of whom you only see during the Proms season/It's a big like returning to the Fifth Form at St Dominic's after a long vacation!

I'll nod to Sir Henry's bust for you !

Bws.
Ferret

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

EDIT - I've got a nasty feeling Ferret that I've mixed you up with Ferney and added some years to your age. I just know SOMEONE admitted to 1948 when I did

Delighted as I would be to be taken for Ferretf, I am nobbutt a kid of 53 - you have to reverse the last two digits of "1948" to get the years when I was most Prom-going.

[salymap]

Yes Saly, it was 1948 and I was still at school rising 13 at the time! We used to go up in the gallery in the hope of escaping the notorious echo. It was only later that I went down to the Arena. I remember Sargent and Basil Cameron, Moiseiwitsch and Ida Haendel, and a little later on Barbirolli. I have a vivid memory of being right down at the rail just behind the podium when he conducted La Mer, up to then I only knew it from records, so it knocked me out !

Apart from a couple of years doing National Service overseas I have managed at least a few Proms every summer, but in the last decade or so I have had more spare evenings and the Season Pass has been so useful.

Part of the pleasure of promming is that you tend to have a favourite space in the hall ( not down the front!) and each year you meet up with kindred spirits, some of whom you only see during the Proms season/It's a big like returning to the Fifth Form at St Dominic's after a long vacation!

I'll nod to Sir Henry's bust for you !

Bws.
Ferret

Thanks, well I was only 18 and it was a wonderful first prom season for me.