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11 Sep 04 - 05:02 PM (#1269484) Subject: Last Night of The Proms From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Its on now, on BBC Tv, and BBC Radio, if any overseas people want to hear it, go to the bbc Radio 3 website, and click listen online. |
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11 Sep 04 - 05:35 PM (#1269508) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Fliss Oh DRAT, Sir jOhn from Hull you beat me to it! Im listening to it as I type and have been preparing a thread to put on. Ive always liked Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea-Songs. Extra songs have been added recently to reflect the four nations of these Islands. 1 Fanfare - The Saucy Arethusa 2 Tom Bowling 3 The Sailor's Hornpipe: Jack's the Lad 4 Ar hyd y nos (All Through the Night) 5 The Road to the Isles 6 Danny Boy 7 The Rio Grande 8 Home, Sweet Home 9 See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes 10 Rule, Britannia! The tune I specially like is the first one, which I call Princess Royal. The Saucy Arethusa The revised Fantasia begins with a fanfare, leading into the nautical song 'The Saucy Arethusa' by William Shield (1748-1829) http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/aboutmusic/wood_fantasia.shtml The tune appears in Walsh's Complete Dancing Master, circa 1730 as The Princess Royal. The air is attributed to Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). www.contemplator.com/sea/arethusa.html We play the tune Princess Royal in the major key at our sessions. The version used by Shields is in the minor key. |
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11 Sep 04 - 06:41 PM (#1269571) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Susanne (skw) A good night, John! I taped it. Though frantically searching for the lyrics to Jerusalem made me aware of not being British after all. But why, oh why did it have to be Danny Boy??? And Road to the Isles??? (I actually prefer the parody the Corries did of the latter!) |
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12 Sep 04 - 03:40 AM (#1269798) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Dave Hanson I switched on just in time to hear Barbara Dickson singing the ' Eriskay Love Lilt ' and James Gallway playing a couple of tunes on the tin whistle and ' Brian Borughs March ' on the flute, quite good but the so called ' English ' bits were horrendous. eric |
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12 Sep 04 - 04:23 AM (#1269809) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Sooz Flicked about between the interactive options so much that we actually saw very little! Put the remote down though for Pomp and Circumstance and Jerusalem. |
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12 Sep 04 - 04:35 AM (#1269814) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: GUEST,Jon Couldn't get the tv picture at all last night but managed to listen to some on radio 3. I think the high spot for me was some barritone (I think - seemed lower) Sir somone (and no not JFH) doing Oh What A Beautiful Morning, a song from Oklahoma. I missed the end of the concert but I enjoyed what I heard. I gather it's to be the last one with that American conductor (again I can't think of a name - Slack?). Shame... I think he relates well with the audience. Jon |
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12 Sep 04 - 04:41 AM (#1269817) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: treewind Leonard Slatkin, outgoing chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It seems like only last week he started in that post. Anahata |
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12 Sep 04 - 05:29 AM (#1269826) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: GUEST,Jon Yep that's the man! Maybe it's just me but it think he has done a great job on the proms (probably the only time I'd likely to listen to classical music). What I've liked is the way he seems to get the audience involved. Maybe he only lifts 5% of the crowd by 5% in terms of singing but when you put that in terms of the magnitutude of the event, that extra contribution is considerable and I suspect I'm being rather mean with my 5% estimates. |
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12 Sep 04 - 05:31 AM (#1269827) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: GUEST probably the only time I'd likely to listen to classical music On tv that is. |
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12 Sep 04 - 07:00 AM (#1269849) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Travelling Audience No, it doesn't seem four years since Leonard Slatkin took over conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It would be good to have the previous conductor back from America....(can't remember his name). I think he went to conduct the Philadelphia Ochestra. Anyway we enjoyed listening from the Oklahoma song..that is when we switched on. What a brilliant atmosphere to be in if you were there at The Albert Hall, OR any of the venues..... singing The Rio Grande, Jerusalem etc. |
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12 Sep 04 - 10:16 AM (#1269947) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Fliss Danny BOy is a beautiful song I love singing it... but for many its been spoilt by memories of drunks on a friday night tenor warbling trying to scrape to the high note! Anyway its a compromise from lots of other beautiful Irish songs which wouldnt have been PC. I took an Irish friend to Warwich festival and she was ok until the crowd started on Rule Britannia. Until then she thought we were rather staid lot! She felt a little awkward surrounded by Brits as I did in Ireland recently in the midst of a crowd of people singing very rebel songs. Usually it doesnt bother me at all. f |
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12 Sep 04 - 12:38 PM (#1270045) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: treewind I tuned in part way through and missed Danny boy. Ironic they should represent Ireland with it - the song was written by an Englishman. Anahata |
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12 Sep 04 - 05:59 PM (#1270406) Subject: RE: Last Night of The Proms - on BBC Now 11Sep04 From: Susanne (skw) It isn't that I dislike Danny Boy as a song, but like some other songs it is usually terminally sentimentalized. Also, I thought not using some other titles missed a chance to get away from stereotyping Irish (Scottish, Welsh, English) folk songs and make people aware that other songs exist. BTW, the baritone was Sir Thomas Allen - very good, I thought, and a change from the usual soprano! |