Anyone know why The Prommers don't make witty remarks, anymore?
Prom 58 - 27.08.17: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langrée
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostRight, I agree! I'm not sure they were ever witty!
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Originally posted by PhilipT View PostYes, they were, but it is true that since the introduction of the Charities shout there haven't been many good shouts, except possibly at Last Nights. The days of "Put another shilling in the meter!" when the electricity failed, "Arena to Choir: Do you know the a cappella version?" when the orchestra were late coming on for Mahler 2, "Arena to Gallery: That was a Baroque 'heave'!" (which elicited the reply "Ho! ho! ho!") and so on are long gone. I miss them.
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I've been listening to this concert on Afternoon on 3. Very fine playing from this Orchestra. It's amazing how much more one hears on the radio than in the live concert. Of course, all that's lacking is the sheer wallop of a mighty symphony orchestra playing at full pelt when heard on the steam radio.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI've been listening to this concert on Afternoon on 3. Very fine playing from this Orchestra. It's amazing how much more one hears on the radio than in the live concert. Of course, all that's lacking is the sheer wallop of a mighty symphony orchestra playing at full pelt when heard on the steam radio.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostAs you were in the audience perhaps you could clarify something from the Candide? There are a couple of sections which have what I can only describes as 'chirruping' violins. Sitting at home it sounded as if the successive repetitions were passed through the desks(ie fewer players each time), so that not only did they get quieter but also sounded further away - a kind of aural mexican wave.
As with the No5, it was good to hear the Candide in something other than the(to me) rather ho-hum renditions that I have heard, and again I found myself listening properly to it.
One thing I wondered about was the off-stage horn solo in the first half. I saw her go and I saw her come back - but I wondered where the magical distant solo was played. Did anyone spot where she went?
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI've been listening to this concert on Afternoon on 3. Very fine playing from this Orchestra. It's amazing how much more one hears on the radio than in the live concert. Of course, all that's lacking is the sheer wallop of a mighty symphony orchestra playing at full pelt when heard on the steam radio.
I'd read some criticisms of Charles Dance's narration in Lincoln Portrait from the Edinburgh performance reviews. But overall, IMHO, he did OK. His American accent was reasonable, with just a tinge of Southern (ironically enough). Tchaik 5 had a few mild distensions and stretchings of tempo, in some of the slower moments, to be sure, but nothing outlandishly surprising there. Terrific solo horn work from Elizabeth Freimuth in both the Bernstein and Tchaikovsky. Martin Handley got caught out early when he misidentified the orchestra's concertmaster as Timothy Lees, as TL had to bow out because of repetitive-stress injury issues:
The Saint Louis Symphony concertmaster, David Halen, took the first chair in TL's place. MH corrected himself by the end, mentioning Halen. (One other tiny slip was when MH accidentally credited the On the Waterfront suite as Langree walked on stage to "Louis Bernstein". But, eminently forgivable in the heat of the moment, and no harm done.)
BTW, regarding the article above, you might want to spare a thought for the author, Janelle Gelfand. She was just let go from the Cincinnati Enquirer, the last of the newspaper's arts writers:
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