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Prom 74 - 8.09.17: Vienna Philharmonic – Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven
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Originally posted by Once Was 4 View PostHis birthplace is now a taxi office. Tells you a lot about modern Bradford.
My grandfather went to a job interview in London, and wandered into a London Cafe for a sandwich.
On the board he saw something called " Bradford Lad", which he ordered, not actually knowing what it was.
It turned out to be cheese and jam, which as it happend was his favourite.
Anybody else heard this excellent sandwich described thus ?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 teamsaint View PostMy fathers family were from Bradford.
My grandfather went to a job interview in London, and wandered into a London Cafe for a sandwich.
On the board he saw something called " Bradford Lad", which he ordered, not actually knowing what it was.
It turned out to be cheese and jam, which as it happend was his favourite.
Anybody else heard this excellent sandwich described thus ?
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... we went to this Prom. Mme v claims not to have a musical bone in her body (not true); I really hoped that a live experience of the Viennese Phil wd be something magical. We had excellent stall seats (tho' the noisy presence of a pompous disgraced former tory politician nearby was not conducive to anything... )
Very disappointed. The Brahms bland and never took off; the Mozart all a bit fumbly and uninspired (tho' the Schubert encore was charming). I really disliked the Beethoven 7. The second and third movements were nice enuff after a rather lacklustre first; but the fourth I found really awful - it just came over as a repetitive onslaught, and the insistent aggressive blare of the trumpet crassly over-riding the rest of the orchestra was physically unpleasant. The Delius encore was nice enough, if you like Delius.
A great shame. Mme v kindly said that she had found the whole experience "enjoyable" - but I so wish her first experience of such great music with notionally such a great orchestra had been truly sublime. The tickets (we were guests) must have cost hundreds of pounds. The best parts of the evening were the walk across Kensington Gardens to get there, and Ax's little Schubert encore.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post.
... we went to this Prom. Mme v claims not to have a musical bone in her body (not true); I really hoped that a live experience of the Viennese Phil wd be something magical. We had excellent stall seats (tho' the noisy presence of a pompous disgraced former tory politician nearby was not conducive to anything... )
Very disappointed. The Brahms bland and never took off; the Mozart all a bit fumbly and uninspired (tho' the Schubert encore was charming). I really disliked the Beethoven 7. The second and third movements were nice enuff after a rather lacklustre first; but the fourth I found really awful - it just came over as a repetitive onslaught, and the insistent aggressive blare of the trumpet crassly over-riding the rest of the orchestra was physically unpleasant. The Delius encore was nice enough, if you like Delius.
A great shame. Mme v kindly said that she had found the whole experience "enjoyable" - but I so wish her first experience of such great music with notionally such a great orchestra had been truly sublime. The tickets (we were guests) must have cost hundreds of pounds. The best parts of the evening were the walk across Kensington Gardens to get there, and Ax's little Schubert encore.
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You say a "pompous disgraced former tory politician"; that leaves plently of options. DM I reckon!
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostHiya vinteuil,
You say a "pompous disgraced former tory politician"; that leaves plenty of options. DM I reckon!
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