Prom 2 (14.7.12): Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady

[Osborn]

Most orchestras have to do this sort of thing now. It's changed in my lifetime.

Not in Vienna. Haven't members of the mighty VPO sacrificed their New Year revelry for countless years in order to give three concerts of silly music to po faced audiences?

(Mind you, it's hard to imagine that Viennese revelry is anything but genteel and worth a miss...)

[Flosshilde]

I think the Proms always have been the last night knees-up for most people.

[David Underdown]

There was an official tweet that it was not going to be televised due to rights issues

[Richard Tarleton]

(But Walt Disney still had raccoons wandering around England in 101 Dalmations. )

And an American Robin in Mary Poppins.

(off thread, my favourite ornithological howler remains the chaffinch you can hear in Full Metal Jacket )

[David-G]

Not in Vienna. Haven't members of the mighty VPO sacrificed their New Year revelry for countless years in order to give three concerts of silly music to po faced audiences?

(Mind you, it's hard to imagine that Viennese revelry is anything but genteel and worth a miss...)

Perhaps "festive" rather than "silly"?

[Osborn]

For "silly" read "festive"? Yes, all right then.
(though the Coronation Ode in Prom 1 made a good case for "festive" equals "silly"...)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

For "silly" read "festive"? Yes, all right then.
(though the Coronation Ode in Prom 1 made a good case for "festive" equals "silly"...)

Say what you like about the Coronation Ode, but I claim (probably wrongly) credit for its inclusion (though I did suggest that it might replace the second half of the Last Night).

[Flosshilde]

Say what you like about the Coronation Ode, but I claim (probably wrongly) credit for its inclusion (though I did suggest that it might replace the second half of the Last Night).

That would certainly put a damper on the Last Night 'jollity'. Not much opportunity for party poppers & hooters.

[MrGongGong]

Say what you like about the Coronation Ode,.

Ok

It's crap

[cloughie]

Ah Benny Green - how I miss him

Hans Keller, Norman Lebrecht, Benny Green - The Line of Beauty

I remember Benny Green, on his Sunday afternoon programme having listened to some 1960s Barbra Streisand track say that she was quite good when she sang proper songs! He was right - I think that was before she returned to proper songs with her Broadway Album!