Prom 75 - 7.09.13: Last Night of the Proms

[Zucchini]

I cannot understand why jewellery should be of any relevance to a musical event. It is an unnecessary distraction.

Mitsuko Uchida has a view on that:

"...Vienna's famous Musikverein. No audience is closer. The only reason the piano doesn't fall off the platform there is because a narrow rim of wood holds it on stage. When you play at the top end of the keyboard you find yourself looking at the woman in the red dress jangling jewellery in the front row. Ninety-five per cent of the time there is always a woman in a red dress jangling jewellery in the front row. I've tried keeping one eye shut so I don't see it but that's quite awkward. That colour is very disturbing for a performer. It's what matadors wave to attract a bull." (interview in The Guardian)

Lovely lady; I thought that was really funny.

[Nick Armstrong]

It was only the first paragraph or so of the article.

So far, so nauseating

[french frank]

Mitsuko Uchida has a view on that:

"...Vienna's famous Musikverein. No audience is closer. The only reason the piano doesn't fall off the platform there is because a narrow rim of wood holds it on stage. When you play at the top end of the keyboard you find yourself looking at the woman in the red dress jangling jewellery in the front row. Ninety-five per cent of the time there is always a woman in a red dress jangling jewellery in the front row. I've tried keeping one eye shut so I don't see it but that's quite awkward. That colour is very disturbing for a performer. It's what matadors wave to attract a bull." (interview in The Guardian)

Lovely lady; I thought that was really funny.

Yes, good she has a sense of humour about it. I hope her performance doesn't suffer from trying to keep one eye shut when she reaches the top end of the piano ...

I find myself unwarming to JdiD, though

[mercia]

it surprises me that performers (and the audience) don't object to that camerman walking up and down between the stage and the front rail at the proms - I would find that very distracting

[VodkaDilc]

it surprises me that performers (and the audience) don't object to that camerman walking up and down between the stage and the front rail at the proms - I would find that very distracting

It's the camera on a crane looming up from the right ('cello) side of the platform that I find distracting. Not to mention the football stadium lights which are shone on the audience between works.

[Barbirollians]

Why nothing substantial for di Donato to sing or for Nige to play ??

[VodkaDilc]

Why nothing substantial for di Donato to sing or for Nige to play ??

We wouldn't want to over-tax the audience.

[Alison]

We wouldn't want to over-tax the audience.

Strangely enough by virtue of its very length I find LNP over-taxing!

[Petrushka]

I've been to the Last Night a few times; Pritchard in 1989, Andrew Davis in 1991 and 1992 and Slatkin in 2001 among them. They had a good and substantial first half in those days with enough of a draw to pull in the punters. You could go home at the interval satisfied that you'd heard a good concert. We had Tatiana Nikolayeva playing Shostakovich and Gwyneth Jones in Wagner for instance. Nowadays it's just, as Salymap says, 'a mish-mash' with no coherence as a programme at all.

The Last Night of the Proms is a parody of itself and it's not only Roger Wright who doesn't know what to do with it. Does anyone?

I started a thread once asking: 'What DO you want for the LNotP?' Perhaps the thread needs resurrecting.

[Serial_Apologist]

I started a thread once asking: 'What DO you want for the LNotP?'

Cancellation

[MrGongGong]

Cancellation

Panic

[Serial_Apologist]

Panic

Paul Clarvis can these days more usually be found playing jazz or improvised percussion in out-of-ways back pubrooms. He's a diamond geezer, our Paul.

[Tony Halstead]

Panic

PANIC

Now,there's a wonderful piece and - to this day- I don't know why there was such a fuss about it!

[amateur51]

Cancellation

And if you can throw in the New Year's All-Male StraussFest from Vienna too I'll be made up

[Petrushka]

Cancellation

Ah but if you cancel the LNotP you will have another LNotP to sort out!