Proms Extra - BBC2

[Alison]

I enjoyed Houghy and Daniel Hope and I find considerable amusement in la Derham's various contributions.

Yes, that was a strange admission from CS. I'd guess (b). I can't actually recall anything she said about anything.

[Nick Armstrong]

Good line up this evening - Sir Peter M-D, Roderick Williams...

[pastoralguy]

Sorry but I LOVE KD!

[Mary Chambers]

Sorry but I LOVE KD!

I have no objection to her at all, but she really should know that Britten wasn't ever "Sir Benjamin".

Max was very articulate, and incredibly (too?) tactful about music he obviously didn't really like. I enjoyed the other guests tonight as well, Patricia Rozario and Roderick Williams, who both had interesting observations to make. Chord of the Week is the part I like best, though.

They even played a (very small) bit of the Helen Grime piece!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry but I LOVE KD!

Credit where it's due - KD is doing better (apart from the Britten gaff).

[Sir Velo]

(apart from the Britten gaff).

or even gaffe

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

or even gaffe

What a gaffe!

[Nick Armstrong]

the Britten gaff

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

or even gaffe

Gaffe, with an e, refers to (1) a clumsy social error, (2) a faux pas, or (3) a blatant mistake or misjudgment. The far less common gaff, without the e, has several definitions related to fishing and sailing, and it also bears the sense a disreputable music hall or theater, which is used primarily in British English.

Two annoying things here. One is the mispeliing of "theatre" and the other is the term "British English".

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry but I LOVE KD!

She has a very odd way of inexplicably raising her right arm, as if it were being pulled forwards and upwards by an invisible puppet string - or maybe it's some kind of divining movement, invoking spirits of presenters past from under the studio floor.

PMD was sounding and looking good for his age, especially considering the health problems he underwent not so long ago. He mentioned having had half an audience walking out in 1969, but it was at the premiere of Worlde's Blis, not the Songs for a Mad King, which was what he implied, I thought.