Please stick to the music, rather than politicians of any kind.
Prom 74 - 8.09.17: Vienna Philharmonic – Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostPlease stick to the music, rather than politicians of any kind.
A concert experience isn't just the hearing of the notes : it's the quality of the ice-cream and the obscene prices of the drinks in the interval, the appalling dress-sense of those attending, the glory of the Albert Hall, wrong tho' it is in so many ways. And yes, the irritation occasioned by neighbours, and (sometimes) the glamour-by-association of people seen. All these things go to make up the concert experience as opposed to listening in comfort at home...
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Originally posted by David-G View PostFor reasons I needn't go into, I was listening on FM, and I must say the FM sound is really awful. So that didn't help. But I thought the first movement of the Beethoven was dull in the extreme. The symphony picked up after that - but Beethoven dull??? I was thinking back wistfully to Edinburgh a fortnight ago, where we heard a period-instrument performance of the Piano Trio Op 1 No 3 with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Jonathan Cohen. That was electric. We could have done with some of that electricity here.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostWell - your previous posts were extremely interesting, but reference to politicians is likely to lead to discussion of their politics, and then we have an argument in conflict of house rules.
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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostDon't JA and DM unite opinion across the political spectrum and not by reason of their politics?"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostDavid Mellor was my urinal neighbour at the Barbican on one occasion.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostDavid Mellor was my urinal neighbour at the Barbican on one occasion.
ERRATUM: It was the National Theatre, not the Barbican"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostHmm... Maybe time to enact the ban promised in post #46 ?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I thought I'd test the partisan nature, or otherwise, of this ban by sharing the thrilling news that I shared a small quantity of the RAH's volume with Jeremy Corbyn at the Mariinsky Prom last week.
I'm sure my reader (with due credit to, I think, Les Dawson among others) is gripped beyond measure at this news.
Perhaps he was just there at the behest of the BBC in an attempt to achieve neutrality by balancing out all those dodgy former Tories...
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