Prom 64: The Breaks - 6.09.19

[LMcD]

OK, folks, using the proper thread for this Prom, which EA set up to load a while back for this specific purpose .....

Only catching part of the 2nd half (I was listening elsewhere during Part 1 of this Prom), but in my admitted ignorance of all the various BBC radio channels, this one sounds definitely one that could have crossed over to Radio 1, Radio 2, or Radio 6. Ironically, on Radio 2 now, the presentation for "Friday Night is Music Night" is the John Wilson Prom from this year. The Heritage Orchestra is certainly playing well, and this has a nice retro vibe from 1970s funk, and related pop music. No, it's not 'classical', but
presumably this Prom's idea was all down to Jules Buckley, kind of a more contemporary counterpart for John Wilson, it seems.

It's long been an ambition of mine to launch an improper thread. (I did look for the 'proper' one before posting, but clearly with insufficient assiduity!)

[DracoM]

What the heck has the Proms come to?
I listened to a bit of this in growing sheer incredulity. A poster said the other day 'Friday Night is Music Night' a la R2.

Crikey

For me this year#s offerings have had maybe three concerts worth real golden topped praise.

In my 20's / 30's I regularly went to 15-20 Proms a season. Now.............?


Blimey.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Merge threads ?

Merged.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not surprisingly, no one has fouind much to say about tonight's Prom.

[Frances_iom]

Not surprisingly, no one has fouind much to say about tonight's Prom.

I did sample 30secs or so mid program to gauge the appeal - certainly sounded like nothing I would go to voluntarily but obviously from the noise + audience sounds it sounded as tho many were enjoying it but surely it was a R1 or R2 type music ?

[doversoul1]

I did sample 30secs or so mid program to gauge the appeal - certainly sounded like nothing I would go to voluntarily but obviously from the noise + audience sounds it sounded as tho many were enjoying it but surely it was a R1 or R2 type music ?

Well, these are BBC Proms and nor Radio 3 Proms after all. At least Radio 3 was considerate (if that) enough to offer the listeners:
A wind-down selection of music following tonight's Prom.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hd8

[DracoM]

I did sample 30secs or so mid program to gauge the appeal - certainly sounded like nothing I would go to voluntarily but obviously from the noise + audience sounds it sounded as tho many were enjoying it but surely it was a R1 or R2 type music ?

Absolutely.
When is someone on Record Review going to call out this Proms season as - maybe for me only, I admit - a blot on the Proms landscape?

[Master Jacques]

When is someone on Record Review going to call out this Proms season as - maybe for me only, I admit - a blot on the Proms landscape?

"Sir Henry Wood would have also loved the fact that we are staging both a rarely-performed opera by Berlioz and a beat-boxing Prom, because his vision was to innovate and include popular music of the time alongside classical. We have protected his vision every year...." (Alan Davey, Controller of R3, Letter to Opera Editor, September 2019)

Whether Sir Henry's "vision" would have been to "innovate" by including a load of tired old rubbish from suburban music halls, simply on the grounds that it might have been "popular", is an open question. Davey has been properly hammered by Opera correspondents, mainly for his false assertions, setting up of irrelevant Aunt Sallys and fatuous complacency - plus the fact that he had been dumb enough to boast about penning his email (whether he himself actually wrote it or not) "while listening to Otello on Radio 3", presumably as background musak to his scrambled thoughts and dubious claims.

So you can expect Record Review to "call out" this appalling Proms season when the moon falls into your local duck pond.

[Constantbee]

Er .. what are supposed to be remembering this time? It felt like getting caught up in a stranger’s wedding reception by mistake, where you know no one but everybody seems to having a good time so it doesn’t seem to matter For me it was neither 70’s funk nor 90’s hip-hop. It was, however, the quality of performance you’ve come to expect from anything Buckley’s in charge of. I can’t help liking him, but if your formative listening years were spent painstakingly recording Robbie Vincent’s BBC Radio London playlists this Prom will disappoint.