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  • seabright
    Full Member
    • Jan 2013
    • 625

    #46
    Originally posted by ahinton View Post
    I remember when his Fifth Symphony was performed at the Proms years ago and the announcer afterwards sought to cover the obvious applause by opining that there must be a lot of members of the Robert Simpson Society in the audience; I'm not aware that the author of The Proms and Natural Justice ever sued the BBC over that, but I'd not have thought to blame him had he does so...
    The Robert Simpson Society website hasn't been updated since February 2014. In addition, two of its Committee members, ie: President Emeritus, John McCabe, and one of its Vice Presidents, Ronald Stevenson, both departed the globe two years ago, yet are still listed thereon. I suspect this Society itself has done much the same thing and has simply withered on the vine, along with performances of his symphonies, none having been performed at the Proms since 1990 ...

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    • Anastasius
      Full Member
      • Mar 2015
      • 1842

      #47
      Anyone know when The Bake Off prom is on ?
      Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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      • MrGongGong
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #48
        Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
        Anyone know when The Bake Off prom is on ?
        I went to a cracking performance of Berio's Accordo by BCMG a few years ago where we were all fed with freshly made amaretti biscuits

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          #49
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          I went to a cracking performance of Berio's Accordo by BCMG a few years ago where we were all fed with freshly made amaretti biscuits
          Would that be Mary Berio?

          Hmm ... Saint-Saens' Wedding Cake; Messiaen's Eclairs; First Movement of Beethoven's Fifth (Allegro con brioche); Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flours; Rossini's Duetto buffo di Due Gateaux; Strauss' Three Holy Kings from the Yeast ...
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #50
            Well ... that's six months' pun therapy down the drain.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Pulcinella
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              • Feb 2014
              • 10892

              #51
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              I went to a cracking performance of Berio's Accordo by BCMG a few years ago where we were all fed with freshly made amaretti biscuits
              Would they be Rubbra's op 43 (second set of Spenser sonnets)?

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              • MrGongGong
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 18357

                #52
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                Would that be Mary Berio?

                Hmm ... Saint-Saens' Wedding Cake; Messiaen's Eclairs; First Movement of Beethoven's Fifth (Allegro con brioche); Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flours; Rossini's Duetto buffo di Due Gateaux; Strauss' Three Holy Kings from the Yeast ...



                VVO were great at HCMF a few years ago
                so how about them ?

                Though they don't usually "bake" anything

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  #53
                  Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post



                  VVO were great at HCMF a few years ago
                  so how about them ?

                  Though they don't usually "bake" anything
                  - carrot cake?

                  The 2010 Proms included a performance of Cardew's Bun #1 ...
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • ahinton
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    #54
                    Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                    Would they be Rubbra's op 43 (second set of Spenser sonnets)?
                    http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/adv...ll&label=&cat=
                    No; it's van Dieren's of the same...

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      #55
                      Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                      Both of them for sure.
                      Were that the case, I rather doubt that an announcer would have heard the sound of just four hands clapping...

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                      • ahinton
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16122

                        #56
                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Would that be Mary Berio?
                        Possibly, unless they simply Mel ted in the mouth.

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        Hmm ... Saint-Saens' Wedding Cake; Messiaen's Eclairs; First Movement of Beethoven's Fifth (Allegro con brioche); Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flours; Rossini's Duetto buffo di Due Gateaux; Strauss' Three Holy Kings from the Yeast ...
                        Bach has a lot to answer for with his Coffee Cantata; dough! Obuhov didn't help with his Croissant Or. Then there were those Schönberg pupils who ended up as mainly Hollywood composers, for egg sample. Also Vladimir ReBake-off, with his Mélomimiques for piano in which he was presciently sending up Mel. And Victoria with his sponge before all of them. Busoni goes into some of these creations, though, as Stra-whisk-y knew well.

                        Time for Coates, methinks...

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37598

                          #57
                          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                          Would they be Rubbra's op 43 (second set of Spenser sonnets)?
                          http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/adv...ll&label=&cat=
                          I guess they would have been played by a Rubbra band...

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                          • Barbirollians
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 11669

                            #58
                            I see that the West Eastern Divan Orchestra and Barenboim and Argerich are playing this programme in Lucerne in the orchestra . As the orchestra has become rather a fixture at the Proms I hope they bring this to the RAH

                            Ravel, Ma mère l'Oye (version for orchestra)
                            Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and string orchestra, Op.35
                            Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin (version for orchestra)
                            Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6

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                            • Cockney Sparrow
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2014
                              • 2283

                              #59
                              I see there is a Bergen/Ed Gardner Concert performance of Peter Grimes at Edinburgh - likely to appear the the Proms? (If so, on that date I'll probably be nearer to Edinburgh than London). No doubt close examination of other performers visiting the UK for Edinburgh could fuel similar speculation.... (however, its Saturday morning and there are things to get on with....)

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                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                #60
                                RAH do a good pint of Spitfire!
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

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