The Proms

[cerez]

What?

The bobbing up and down of the promenaders is a tradition of the Last Night that goes back decades!

Just put it to the back of your mind and run with it. Its fun.

[khobbs]

Erm none of the singers tonight were from the opera world, except for Rod Gilfry ... why would they be?

[Laura RMCF]

Just listened to Bartok's 3rd piano concerto on the radio broadcast. Quite unexpoectedly beautiful; a perfect blend of the Romantic and Modern. Another piece by him later on in the Prom...

[Aller]

The problem I had with it was that it seemed very one-dimensional. It was angry, glowering Beethoven throughout and I personally think there's a lot more to the music than just that e.g. in the coda of the final movement where the music changes from C minor to C major. The music should dance on air and yet Lewis insisted on making it as grimly determined as the rest of the final. He made me acutely aware of quite how many almost unending scales there are in the piece and gave very little characterisation to the passagework.

Plus I did not like the way he tried to trash Mozart in his interview with Charles Hazelnut. Mozart s***s all over Beethoven.

[natemail00]

Oh dear - why?
Many people have catholic tastes in music - for instance, my husband and I adore 'grand' opera and by dint of scrimping and saving like mad, have managed to visit several of the major opera houses in Europe - but I also love a lot of 'old school' heavy-metal music - and some modern country music - and definitely, most certainly, the music of Rogers and Hammerstein!

Don't think me rude, but can't we all enjoy 'good' music wherever and whenever we come across it?

[jacfenway95]

Hmm...I suppose so. Having listened to nothing but 'classical'/art music for the last 20 years I find now that other genres have nothing to offer me. I don't have an eclectic musical taste at all. I passed through the dross and found myself at the summit

[bridgett s]

The Waltz and Polonaise from his opera Eugene Onegin. I missed the earlier '1910 prom' but looking at what was on I think the evening concert was the better of the two. Dorothy Howell's Lamia was suprisingly good. (given that it hadn't been played since its Henry Wood debut)

Berlioz and the Emperor piano concerto on The Proms today, which will be televised at a future date.

[delta_beta]

AND they put TS and SEE in context with dialogue links! FANTASTIC!

[shilo h]

Whenever I hear the horns I think of the Tim Westwood skit on Big Brother's Big Mouth

[jk8rumrr]

It's probably the only major classical concert event in the world that isn't beyond the means of most. Long may it stay that way!