Originally posted by Bryn
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What do you want from a televised Prom?
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I just came across a 1985 TV documentary celebrating the first 100 years of the Proms and the question of televised Proms came up towards the end, particularly in respect of the Last Night. John Drummond railed against the "ludicrous exhibitionism" that had been made much worse by television, whilst Gerald Kaufman castigated as "disgusting" the Last Night's "orgy of exhibitionist chauvinism."
Incidentally, You Tube seems to have become a significant archive of interesting TV documentaries that have never been seen again after their initial one-off transmission and this Proms Centenary programme is a case in point. It features many great names and bits of film (Boult, Barbirolli, Sargent, Britten, etc.) as well as interviewees who include Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez, Leopold Stokowski, Edward Heath, Moura Lympany, William Glock and many others. Well worth checking out! ...
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Strongly tempted by a 6 DVD boxset, Classic BBC Proms - Oct budget? on Ica Classics label. Loughran, Temirkanov, Solti, Rozhdestvensky, Susskind; a joy to view a Viennese Night at The Proms again. Have a feeling that it could match the BBC Legends, 20 CDs boxset, always
a reliable treasure trove on an evening of dire scheduling!
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Originally posted by seabright View PostI just came across a 1985 TV documentary celebrating the first 100 years of the Proms ..
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Originally posted by PhilipT View PostI think there's some confusion here. The centenary season was 1995, and I have a mug to prove it. Colonel Danby, who posts here occasionally, is clearly visible in the front row at the start of the clip. Perhaps he can enlighten us about the true date."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostI remember this programme very well and it is indeed 1995. How wonderful to see again some of those Prommers who were at virtually every concert I went to at that time and whose names, Ken Johnson apart, I never knew. Presumably many of them are now in the great Arena in the sky? Another regular Prommer I remember well is Steve Follows who was captain of one of the winning University Challenge teams in the late 1980s.
Incidentally, the same uploader has added another fascinating TV documentary about "Conductors and Conducting" that features interviews with a number of Proms conductors, including Maazel, Solti, Mehta, Welser-Most, Slatkin and so on. This is another one-off transmission from the past that has fully deserved a You Tube revival ...
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Originally posted by Stanley Stewart View PostStrongly tempted by a 6 DVD boxset, Classic BBC Proms - Oct budget? on Ica Classics label. Loughran, Temirkanov, Solti, Rozhdestvensky, Susskind; a joy to view a Viennese Night at The Proms again. Have a feeling that it could match the BBC Legends, 20 CDs boxset, always
a reliable treasure trove on an evening of dire scheduling!
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Originally posted by seabright View PostThis sounds interesting. I wonder how far back the BBC's Proms TV archive stretches? The "Proms Centenary" documentary featured a clip from the Previn "Carmina Burana" Prom in which Thomas Allen fainted from the heat during one of his solos and had to be carried off. A budding baritone in the arena, score in hand, promptly went back stage and sang the rest of the performance to great acclaim. That would be fun to see again. Did anyone video it?
http://www.icaclassics.com/dvd/classic-bbc-proms-5-dvds"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Richard Tarleton
We've seen it recently - was it in a documentary about Andre Previn? It included Previn's take on the episode.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostWe've seen it recently - was it in a documentary about Andre Previn? It included Previn's take on the episode.
I can't see why the BBC can't upload Prom performances, whether radio or TV, and attach them to the relevant Proms Archive entry though perhaps the rights issue is too complicated to make it practical."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostAt least we do know that it exists in the BBC archive.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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