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A
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« on: 15:36:30, 26-08-2007 »

I am sure that most of us have felt some of the performances/repertoire of this year's proms to have been poorly delivered. I am therefore providing a place where members can deposit their pet hates from this year's proms. Please say why you have chosen to trash them. Roll Eyes




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« Reply #1 on: 17:40:59, 26-08-2007 »
Quote from: A on 15:36:30, 26-08-2007

I am sure that most of us have felt some of the performances/repertoire of this year's proms to have been poorly delivered. I am therefore providing a place where members can deposit their pet hates from this year's proms. Please say why you have chosen to trash them. Roll Eyes




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OK A (good idea!). Let's start with tomorrow night's extravaganza: I'll ditch (even before the first note) Andrew Lloyd Webber's Gethsemane, and Sunset Boulevard.

I shall follow that with Sondheim's Loving You.

In fact (let's not beat about the bush!), the ENTIRE so-called "Prom" should fall gracelessly into your skip. There was once a time - in a galaxy 'long ago' - when we were proud of the Proms. They 'meant something'.

Perhaps someone more 'au fait' and 'up-to-date' could offer some guidance to those of us well into 'old age': Exactly WHAT (for Christ's sake) is THE POINT of tomorrow night's prom?

Baz [grr emoticon]
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« Reply #2 on: 21:11:34, 26-08-2007 »
This year's novelty proms have suffered from particularly poor choices to represent their genres ( world, jazz, musicals, film ) but really, the prime candidate for 'Enry's skip has got to be the second half of prom 72. This and every year.
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« Reply #3 on: 12:55:56, 27-08-2007 »
Quote from: Baziron on 17:40:59, 26-08-2007

OK A (good idea!). Let's start with tomorrow night's extravaganza: I'll ditch (even before the first note) Andrew Lloyd Webber's Gethsemane, and Sunset Boulevard.

I shall follow that with Sondheim's Loving You.

In fact (let's not beat about the bush!), the ENTIRE so-called "Prom" should fall gracelessly into your skip. There was once a time - in a galaxy 'long ago' - when we were proud of the Proms. They 'meant something'.

Perhaps someone more 'au fait' and 'up-to-date' could offer some guidance to those of us well into 'old age': Exactly WHAT (for Christ's sake) is THE POINT of tomorrow night's prom?

Baz [grr emoticon]

Can we just put Michael Ball himself in please so that we can be spared having to listen to his terrible singing ever again!!
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« Reply #4 on: 17:35:02, 27-08-2007 »
Not so much a musical gripe, but I'd quite happily have pitched into the skip the cretin sitting just along from me who felt it necessary to check his Blackberry approximately every ten minutes during the wonderful Gotterdammerung under Runnicles -  Angry Angry Angry
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« Reply #5 on: 17:51:27, 27-08-2007 »
Perhaps he had the Libretto downloaded on it, Ernani?   He was just checking-up on the singers to make sure they were getting it right Wink
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« Reply #6 on: 18:10:24, 27-08-2007 »
By Gad, you don't think he would fit it all on a blackberry? even a 80g ipod would be pushing wouldn't it ? it goes on for E..v..e..r..!!

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