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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    - and here:

    Listen to Tom Coult | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.



    I shall be providing similar links and intros to all the works by living composers in the weeks before their broadcasts.
    Advanced many thanks for the predicted stirling work that you will be providing us, Ferney, in the next few weeks!
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • Alison
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 6455

      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      Advanced many thanks for the predicted stirling work that you will be providing us, Ferney, in the next few weeks!
      Yes, I'm determined to be positive about Proms 17, and these extras can only help!

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      • Richard Tarleton

        For anyone interested, there's a long interview with David Pickard by Richard Morrison in today's Times (and yes you'll have to actually buy the Times to read it, unless you have already or are a subscriber ). He is clearly exasperated by aspects of the RAH.

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12778

          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
          For anyone interested, there's a long interview with David Pickard by Richard Morrison in today's Times...
          ... from which - " Pickard has also scheduled Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 21, with the feisty Australian tenor Stuart Skelton in the title role)"

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Demetrius View Post
            2017 includes Saunders Molly's Song
            OK - I've enjoyed the game of "Hunt the Saunders" that I've been playing all morning, but I give up. Can anyone tell me which Prom is this being performed in, please?
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12778

              Saturday 2 Sep 2017
              19:30
              Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall
              Wilton's Music Hall
              The world’s oldest surviving music hall provides an atmospheric backdrop for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for A Mad King. Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Marcus Farnsworth as soloist.
              Programme
              John Luther Adams
              songbirdsongs(14 mins)
              excerpts
              Olivier Messiaen
              Le merle noir(6 mins)
              Rebecca Saunders
              Molly's Song 3(11 mins)

              Peter Maxwell Davies
              Eight Songs for a Mad King(32 mins)

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163



                I'd seen the PMD, but not the rest of that programme. (And RS isn't in the alphabetical list of composers for the 2017 season.) Many, many thanks.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Zucchini
                  Guest
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 917

                  Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                  ... (and yes you'll have to actually buy the Times to read it, unless you have already or are a subscriber ).
                  Not so. If you register you can have access to 2 articles a week from Times/ST current edition or archive.

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                    Not so. If you register you can have access to 2 articles a week from Times/ST current edition or archive.
                    Thank you for the correction, I didn't know that. I was just trying to forestall the usual "paywall" comments

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                    • Prommer
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 1258

                      Originally posted by mrbouffant View Post
                      I have a wallchart in mine - looks like you had some bad luck there.
                      Yes: hard cheese, old man... as TT would have said!

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12778

                        Originally posted by Prommer View Post
                        Yes: hard cheese, old man... as TT would have said!
                        .


                        Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                          A pedant comments: isn't that "T-T"?
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12778

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... from which - " Pickard has also scheduled Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 21, with the feisty Australian tenor Stuart Skelton in the title role)"

                            ... sadly, The Times has subsequently corrected this. I wd've paid good money to have seen Skelton as Leonore...

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                            • Demetrius
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 276

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              Many thanks for the statistics, Demetrius - I was going to do something similar this morning, but you've saved me the effort


                              Brilliant!!! I missed that - when is it on?


                              Beggur! I saw that the first time I looked through the programme, but missed on the "Brit-specific" reading.


                              Thou fib'st, sir! (It's 8 lines from the bottom, between Kate Whitley and Cheryl Frances-Hoad )

                              Interesting that the "British" number of hours, works, and composers has fallen so noticeably since Roger Wright left
                              Molly's Song has been found already, and I missed the toccata, mea culpa! Interestingly enough, there isn't too much of a drop in the number of composers, but in the playing time and in the number of works played. This is mostly due to the new commissions and new works, who tend to go to British musicians (which is understandable, the BBC should back up their home music scene, just as I would expect say MDR Kultur to back up the German one). But if you're not Elgar, Walton, or Vaughan Williams, it's a bad time to be dead and British. And even Walton and Vaughan Williams have seen better years in very recent memory.

                              Still, it's a good season. if future seasons shift the focus now and then, all is well. Has anyone seen the Saturday Matinees, though? Seems like they have been discontinued in favor of the Proms @ concerts.


                              Edit: and yes, the composers list is full of omissions; Erkki-Sven Tüür is missing as well, but is part of Prom 26 (Paavo Järvi. The Järvis seem to champion this composer)
                              Last edited by Demetrius; 21-04-17, 14:01.

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                              • Prommer
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 1258

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                A pedant comments: isn't that "T-T"?
                                Excellent, at the back, you are awake!

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