Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:04:43 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when the conductor for the Last Night was
always Sir Malcolm Sargent. This year's Last Night broadcast included a
fascinating brief bit of archive film from 1946 showing Sargent
conducting "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra". He didn't look any
younger then than I remember him looking some twenty years later.

I remember watching that film at school...

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Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

Well, maybe you got the adio description channel by mkistake!

I always remember the Monty Python Sketch which gradually built up to a full
scale bombing raid to quell the last pockets of resistance etc, well it was
funny at the time...
Brian

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:19:16 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
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Maybe the sub line should have been Last plight of the Proms?

Given the lousy audio quality and balance, the dire vision presentation,
with no shot lasting longer than three seconds and often without
relevance to the music and Katie Derham's patronising delivery and who
is obviously paid by the number of times she uses the phrase "at the BBC
Proms", thank goodness it was the Last Plight. We know we're at the
bloody BBC Proms because it's plastered all over the walls of the RAH
and that's what we've chosen to watch. I gave up at 10:15 and went to
bed.

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Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

So can I Have you ever been under the stage at the RAH, Its a bit low. Beams
that hit you on the head. However some of the dressing rooms have the floor
hollowed out to allow one to stand up.
Brian

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:19:16 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Maybe the sub line should have been Last plight of the Proms?

Given the lousy audio quality and balance, the dire vision presentation,
with no shot lasting longer than three seconds and often without
relevance to the music and Katie Derham's patronising delivery and who
is obviously paid by the number of times she uses the phrase "at the BBC
Proms", thank goodness it was the Last Plight. We know we're at the
bloody BBC Proms because it's plastered all over the walls of the RAH
and that's what we've chosen to watch. I gave up at 10:15 and went to
bed.
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I can remember when they were the "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts".

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Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

On 11/09/2011 08:12, Brian Gaff wrote:
You just cannot rely on this modern crap these days. Are you sure thera are
such things as engineers?

Brian

All done by computers these days, I thought!

Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:07:28 -0700 (PDT), "alexander.keys1"
wrote:

Were they allowed to play Elgar this time, or did the Septics make
them play Barber's Adagio for Strings instead, like they did ten years
ago? I stopped watching the Proms after that, there's no place in a
democracy for politicians to dictate concert programmes, that's what
happened in the USSR and Nazi Germany.

I'm convinced Elgar wrote that as a ****take, you know.
The very name gives it away.

Last Night of the Proms: 10.36 to 10.41pm
 

On 12/09/2011 22:24, Brian Gaff wrote:
So can I Have you ever been under the stage at the RAH, Its a bit low. Beams
that hit you on the head. However some of the dressing rooms have the floor
hollowed out to allow one to stand up.
Brian

I sang there as a young teenager, as a member of a church choir. What I
remember is the cold and noisy changing rooms back of stage.