Prom 16: Ibiza/Cobblers Prom (29.07.15)

[Beef Oven!]

They want to ban dance music from the Proms!

No more Sacre Du Printemps, Daphnis et Chloe, remove the ballet sections from Mozart's Idomeneo, Ibiza Proms............

[MrGongGong]

And there wasn't much dancing - just jumping up and down to the thuds.

That's called DANCING

Glad you enjoyed it

[Beef Oven!]

That's called DANCING

Glad you enjoyed it

Was he talking about last year's Rite Of Spring?

[Nick Armstrong]

No more Sacre Du Printemps, Daphnis et Chloe

Pieces like that gain from not having a load of dancers prancing and clattering around... imvvho of course!

Yours (not for everyone, mind!)

Caliban Le Balletophobe

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PS: I like the new abbreviated title of this thread!

[doversoul1]

it's meant to be repetitive
so you can DANCE to it

The same principle as Classical Music for Toddlers?

[Flosshilde]

They want to ban dance music from the Proms!

No more Sacre Du Printemps, Daphnis et Chloe, remove the ballet sections from Mozart's Idomeneo, Ibiza Proms............

[Flosshilde]

Perfect for the concert hall, then...

Anyone for the New Year concert from Vienna?

[MrGongGong]

The same principle as Classical Music for Toddlers?

No

Dance music

You will find that it occurs all over the world

(but probably not suited for the folks who like to carry their unhappiness around with them)

[Beef Oven!]

Anyone for the New Year concert from Vienna?

Concerts like that gain from not having a load of dancers prancing and clattering around...

[Flosshilde]

I would like to hear the good arguments for having no Mozart. The only one I can think of is that Mozart sounds better in a more intimate acoustic than the Albert Hall.

Mozart isn't exactly neglected - there are more perfomances of his music than you can shake a stick at . Perhaps it might be more interesting to play some 'new' music in its stead? Like music from some of his contemporaries that doesn't get anything like the exposure.

[Beef Oven!]

Let's dance.........

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone for the New Year concert from Vienna?

Sure, within reason!

(But not with those drippy videos of... dancers! )

Concerts like that gain from not having a load of dancers prancing and clattering around...

You took the words right out of my.... Oh wait!

[doversoul1]

No

Dance music

You will find that it occurs all over the world

(but probably not suited for the folks who like to carry their unhappiness around with them)

Rephrased: …Classical Music concerts for Toddlers

[Flosshilde]

Anyone for the New Year concert from Vienna?

And I think that the Vienna Phil (or whoever it is that plays) is probably a rather larger orchestra than the Strausses et al had, so if you're talking about dance music that is played out of context & not in its 'raw' state, you don't have to look much further than that regular in the R3 schedules.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mozart isn't exactly neglected

For very good reasons.

there are more perfomances of his music than you can shake a stick at .

For very good reasons.

Perhaps it might be more interesting to play some 'new' music in its stead?

Or in the "stead" of Tchaikovsky or Dvorak or Saint-Saens or Verdi or Puccini or Copland or Vivaldi or (continues for ninety-seven pages) or almost anybody except Mozart (and Haydn and Beethoven and Bach and Handel and Wagner and Schönberg and Stravinsky and Monteverdi and Brahms and Bruckner and Dunstable).

Like music from some of his contemporaries that doesn't get anything like the exposure.

For very good reasons.