Prom 74 (12.09.20) Last Night of the Proms

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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Of course, we should all don our headphones, link them (plugging in is so yesterday) to our 'smart' phones, connect to the iPlayer app, head out through the front door, wave our EU flags, and join in with the BBC Singers in Britannia Waives the Rules and Land of Soap and Water, karaoke-style, in support of the BBC and the NHS. (Or not.)

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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8656

      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      Of course, we should all don our headphones, link them (plugging in is so yesterday) to our 'smart' phones, connect to the iPlayer app, head out through the front door, wave our EU flags, and join in with the BBC Singers in Britannia Waives the Rules and Land of Soap and Water, karaoke-style, in support of the BBC and the NHS. (Or not.)
      Would you care to 'dep' for me?

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
        Would you care to 'dep' for me?
        Sorry, I've got this big indoors rave to go to.

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        • Serial_Apologist
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          • Dec 2010
          • 37835

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Sorry, I've got this big indoors rave to go to.
          Hmm - not to be sniffed at.

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
            Hmm - not to be sniffed at.
            Perhaps I should have said I have a masque to attend.

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            • Ein Heldenleben
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              • Apr 2014
              • 6937

              Don’t know how many are watching / listening but really enjoying the clarity of textures from a reduced string section as in that sprightly LNDF overture. One of the unexpected benefits of social distancing : a more HIPP like sound Perhaps ? One thing this years LNOTP will not be so ludicrously overblown ...

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              • Prommer
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 1260

                No EU flags this year! BBC set dressing department clearly traddies...

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                • Prommer
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 1260

                  Still here!

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                  • Ein Heldenleben
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                    • Apr 2014
                    • 6937

                    Yes me too..

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                    • Prommer
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 1260

                      Originally posted by Prommer View Post
                      Still here!

                      Just catching up on posts... someone asks if any Prommers still around. And specifically if any who like the Proms as such, also enjoy the Last Night. I do. I can encompass both the quotidian fare of the Proms with the Last Night programme. Shoot me.

                      Mahler 9 and Rule Britannia? Hell, yes. Just not on the same evening or in the same mood.

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12315

                        Enjoying the music but my cringe-o-meter went off the scale before a note had been played.
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • Prommer
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                          • Dec 2010
                          • 1260

                          Nice to see it all on BBC1. They have decided to use the applause from the park, to give a tiny bit more atmosphere to the broadcast (on TV at least), which I suppose is understandable...

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                          • Ein Heldenleben
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                            • Apr 2014
                            • 6937

                            I think hearing Mozart and Strauss at 8.0O on BBC ONE is so rare as to almost make one faint with pleasure and surprise . I have to say Golda Schultz has really massively impressed me. And now Nicola B playing quite beautifully.

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                            • cloughie
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                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22191

                              Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
                              I think hearing Mozart and Strauss at 8.0O on BBC ONE is so rare as to almost make one faint with pleasure and surprise . I have to say Golda Schultz has really massively impressed me. And now Nicola B playing quite beautifully.
                              I agree with you about Nicola and Gullda’s voice but why the need to show the scenes of the four nations, much rather see Nicola! However, that arrangement of Jerusalem was dreadful!

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                              • Keraulophone
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1967

                                Shame about Morgen - completely missed the stillness of this lovely song with phrasing as lumpy as my white sauce. Impressed by Elsa Dreisig’s recent album ‘Morgen’ on Erato, however.

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