Prom 74 (12.09.20) Last Night of the Proms

[Old Grumpy]

Maybe they should just have said that all songs will be played without vocals in empathy with all the choirs who have been unable to rehearse and perform in public for the last 5.5 months.

[DracoM]

And that would have stopped so much fingers-in-ears chit=chat.

[CGR]

Maybe they should just have said that all songs will be played without vocals in empathy with all the choirs who have been unable to rehearse and perform in public for the last 5.5 months.

They could display the words on the screen.

But why can't we have a soloist singing Land of Hope & Glory etc. ?

And they introduce the dreadful 'You'll Never Walk Alone' !!!! WHY? It's not a football match.

The BBC seems to have really lost its way and needs to be reformed root & branch.

[DracoM]

<< The BBC seems to have really lost its way and needs to be reformed root & branch.>>

Wow! Is one D.Cummings Esq a mate?

[LMcD]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the whole thing was dreamed up by somebody who was tasked with getting the Last Night into the news in order to give BBC1's ratings a timely boost.

[Ein Heldenleben]

They could display the words on the screen.

But why can't we have a soloist singing Land of Hope & Glory etc. ?

And they introduce the dreadful 'You'll Never Walk Alone' !!!! WHY? It's not a football match.

The BBC seems to have really lost its way and needs to be reformed root & branch.

Yep I can’t stand YNWA either. I love Rodgers and Hammerstein and Carousel but dislike that song. By the way if we are trading wokeness shouldn’t YNWA be ousted on the grounds that the musical takes a soft line on domestic violence ?

[DracoM]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the whole thing was dreamed up by somebody who was tasked with getting the Last Night into the news in order to give BBC1's ratings a timely boost.

Aha! Wheels within wheels.....?

[LHC]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the whole thing was dreamed up by somebody who was tasked with getting the Last Night into the news in order to give BBC1's ratings a timely boost.

Well it’s certainly had an impact on sales of LOHAG and RB. Together they occupy 13 places in Amazon’s top 15 music downloads.

[Cockney Sparrow]

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the whole thing was dreamed up by somebody who was tasked with getting the Last Night into the news in order to give BBC1's ratings a timely boost.

Aha! Wheels within wheels.....?

The other thought is that the whipped up indignation (any stick to beat the BBC - its a very long term campaign) was to distract from some particularly detrimental story elsewhere. I can't think what that would be at the moment, the story will be over if returning to school goes very wrong, and anyway the sheer shameless bravado of the ruling government means they can't be bothered with the detriment - 4 years from the next election.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But why can't we have a soloist singing Land of Hope & Glory etc. ?

Check the score of P & C 1 There are no words to be sung.

And they introduce the dreadful 'You'll Never Walk Alone' !!!! WHY? It's not a football match.

It has nothing to do with football, being an excerpt from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel”. Gerry and the Pacemakers nicked it.[/QUOTE]

[oddoneout]

It has nothing to do with football, being an excerpt from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel”. Gerry and the Pacemakers nicked it.

[/QUOTE]
It can't be sung at football matches at present so perhaps someone thought this was a good alternative - after all sport and kulcher are in bed together in the relevant government department - give folks a chance to bellow tunelessly at home...

[gurnemanz]

They could display the words on the screen.

But why can't we have a soloist singing Land of Hope & Glory etc. ?

And they introduce the dreadful 'You'll Never Walk Alone' !!!! WHY? It's not a football match.

The BBC seems to have really lost its way and needs to be reformed root & branch.

I greatly enjoyed Joyce DiDonato doing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the Proms a few years ago. It worked brilliantly in the context of a Last Night second half as it does very movingly in situ during Carousel.

[Edgy 2]

The real scandal is that Lisa Batiashvili is playing but they have only given her the blasted Lark Ascending - what a waste ! They could scrap a couple of short pieces and hit her to play a proper concerto or brought in Tasmin Little to play the Coleridge-Taylor Concerto.

If only

[Serial_Apologist]

I greatly enjoyed Joyce DiDonato doing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the Proms a few years ago. It worked brilliantly in the context of a Last Night second half as it does very movingly in situ during Carousel.

I guess so - in a roundabout sort of way...

[LMcD]

I guess so - in a roundabout sort of way...

It would certainly produce a Big Ello from the audience.
(Does anybody else remember 'Movie Go Round' which was hosted by Peter Haigh on the Light Programme on Sunday afternoons in the late 1960s and opened with the Carousel Waltz?)