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I'm listening to The Last Night of the Proms via West German Radio (WDR 3) because here in Maassluis the sound quality of WDR 3 is much better than that of BBC Radio 3. But I return to Radio 3 for the introductions in English.  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #1 on: 22:40:48, 08-09-2007 » |
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 To counter those withdrawal symptoms is the one bad thing about the Proms. How will I cope. Could always be proud of my total of 36 
Rather late start next year at July 18th. |
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« Reply #2 on: 16:22:05, 10-09-2007 » |
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No, this year was an exceptionally early start |
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martle
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« Reply #3 on: 16:30:13, 10-09-2007 » |
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Could always be proud of my total of 36 That's highly impressive, eru. £190 well spent! |
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« Reply #4 on: 16:31:52, 10-09-2007 » |
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Indeed, eru. Almost as impressive as martle's maths.  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #5 on: 16:45:26, 10-09-2007 » |
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Presumably the rest went on the collection... |
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #6 on: 16:50:31, 10-09-2007 » |
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I think you'll find that eru said in a post on an earlier thread that he took full advantage of the Times offer for free day tickets, and therefore would have spent rather less than £190 I did rather well myself this season. I went to 42 concerts which, for the £185 I spent on my season ticket, worked out at £4.40 per concert. I also went to 2 Proms Saturday Matinees and 3 Proms Chamber Music concerts, all but one of which I booked in advance, at a total cost of £55. Then there were the programmes, the bottles of wine, the beer, the contributions to communal picnics, the three nights in Imperial College over the weekend just gone, and a reasonably substantial donation to Promenaders' Musical Charities... ...oh dear   |
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« Reply #7 on: 16:59:07, 10-09-2007 » |
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Indeed the Times offer rather reduced the total cost to a measly £88  But who can tell what went through the mind of various newsagents every Friday when I toddled up to the counter with five or six copies?! |
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Bert Coules
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« Reply #8 on: 17:53:59, 10-09-2007 » |
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Is the Last Night considered too far beneath contempt to discuss here on this most elevated of boards? I'm slightly surprised by the deafening silence as to both content and execution.
Bert
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martle
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« Reply #9 on: 18:29:50, 10-09-2007 » |
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Indeed, eru. Almost as impressive as martle's maths.  Actually, I was factoring in 27p for a can of 7-Up at each concert, tinners. Ok. I wasn't.  |
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« Reply #10 on: 18:33:37, 10-09-2007 » |
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Are we glimpsing something of martle's, er, 'preferences'? |
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« Reply #11 on: 18:38:15, 10-09-2007 » |
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Are we glimpsing something of martle's, er, 'preferences'? At least he's wearing protection. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #12 on: 18:41:07, 10-09-2007 » |
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Is the Last Night considered too far beneath contempt to discuss here on this most elevated of boards? I'm slightly surprised by the deafening silence as to both content and execution.
Bert
Well, the trad elements of the Last Night just aren't my "thing" at all but I know they aren't going to change so there's no point in railing against them every year. There's more than enough vitriol at TOP, from two notable contributors in particular. As it happens, I thought Mr Bell and Ms Netrebko did very good "turns" in the context of the evening. And the early part of the programme probably contained too many short items, the concert could have had at least one piece longer than ten minutes surely. |
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Bert Coules
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« Reply #13 on: 18:48:14, 10-09-2007 » |
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Thanks for the reply. But what and where, please, is "TOP"?
Bert
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« Reply #14 on: 18:54:20, 10-09-2007 » |
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Thanks for the reply. But what and where, please, is "TOP"?
Bert
Sorry Bert, this board has taken to referring to the "official" BBC board as "the other place" ( TOP ) A little bit insular but it goes back to the origin of this board in february when the BBC boards were severely constrained for a time. |
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