Prom 75: 10.09.16 - Last Night of the Proms

[Barbirollians]

I am afraid five sea songs and then the Chilcot interpolations again.

[Ein Heldenleben]

All Through The Night seems to have suffered the same harmonic fate as God Save The Queen at the Rio Olympics.
On a positive note I think Oramo is conducting brilliantly ....

[Prommer]

JDF milked it wonderfully, in the medley that did arrive. A natural. 'Guantanamera' does take on a slightly interesting tinge these days, I find...

Good to see the sea shanties back, though all seemed a bit rusty for the BBCSO! Like exercise, you need to keep this kind of stuff up.

[Alison]

Good question Barbs

[Bert Coules]

What's happening in the hall during this regional flitabout, I wonder?

[Prommer]

I am afraid five sea songs and then the Chilcot interpolations again.

Why no reference to this in the book or online?

[Prommer]

What's happening in the hall during this regional flitabout, I wonder?

Quite. I think they are made to stop and watch it! Enforced group fun...

[Barbirollians]

What's happening in the hall during this regional flitabout, I wonder?

The choir are singing the same numbers can be heard on Radio 3

[Prommer]

What's happening in the hall during this regional flitabout, I wonder?

What about a red button option not to go to the Parks for Chilcottism but to stay in the Hall when something else is laid on?!

If so, what? Answers on a postcard.

[Bert Coules]

Thanks for the replies. Now pray silence for the King of the Incas. Who could do with subtitles, though he's not been given any, sadly.

[ARBurton]

Thanks for the replies. Now pray silence for the King of the Incas...

The Proms website says that the author of the National Anthem is unknown - I thought it was Haydn?

[peterkin]

The Proms website says that the author of the National Anthem is unknown - I thought it was Haydn?

I believe that is the German anthem

[Barbirollians]

Good question Barbs

Make that under 60 the front row look in their 70s !

[ARBurton]

Er no I don`t think so, the UK and Liechtenstein share the same tune (i think) but Germany`s is different.

[Stan Drews]

Unless I dropped off, all the parks shots during Rule Britannia seemed to be from London. Whatever happened to the much-vaunted inclusiveness? Or were the editors worried that those pesky nationalists might have spoiled things by waving the wrong flags? [Edit: And only Belfast thereafter.]

Plus point: no matter what one thinks of God Save ... Britten managed to make a silk purse of it. (While still at school, my rather eccentric head of music thought it would be a good idea to open our annual concert with it and blew her entire budget on hire fees, BB still being very much alive - £400-odd quid, I think, in the early 70s.)

One final moan, and since James Loughran has recently been discussed elsewhere on the boards, I recall that he made a plea in one Last Night speech for Auld Lang Syne not to be pronounced 'Zyne'. Alas, 'twas never to be, although KD almost managed it tonight.