The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62924 Message #1018564
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
14-Sep-03 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Last Night of the Proms
Subject: RE: Last Night of the Proms
Good one Greg!
Nostalgia for what though?
As for playing it on Uillean pipes or valve trumpet I am inclined to ask how old is L of H & G? Would such instruments be a bit modern?
I bought a Brass Monkey CD on which Martin Carthy sings Jerusalem to ...... is it the Rose Tree? which he claims takes out the bombast, I don't know. Da Dannan have done some amazing things to rock and pop on Welcome to the Hotel Connemara so all things are possible.
I guess a wider collection of people go to the proms and I just have an innaccurate folk memory of upperclass twits waving flags and singing L of H & G.