Easy for *you* to say, Roger.
Hal
On Sep 13, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Roger Day wrote:
> I did not watch it. The Last Night has nothing to do with me.
>
> Roger
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Judy Prince
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> You said: "....men and women in black evening dress play wonderful
>> music to
>> earnest
>> concert-goers in their rainbow wear in the half-light of Albert
>> Hall...."
>> Very effective evocation, R'Owl. Thanks for the wiki-link; read it
>> with
>> great interest; think the 'inventor' of the occasion was a pragmatic,
>> enlightened, action-oriented individual; wonder if you saw/heard the
>> 'ceilidh'; and if you all sang 'Auld Lang Syne'.
>>
>> And all this time I though the Proms were a series of
>> 'celebrations' of a
>> war event. Glad to know otherwise.
>>
>> Hon. joodles
>>
>> 2008/9/13 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> The attachment of the last night to reality is ... very slim. Norman
>>> Lebrecht was going on about how the the last night reflected England
>>> back on to itself. It's not my England that's being reflected, but
>>> some wierd place, half pantomime, half ruritania, half madman. Maybe
>>> it is England, and I'm the one that missing something.
>>>
>>> The last night has little to do with the previous 200+ concerts
>>> where
>>> men and women in black evening dress play wonderful music to earnest
>>> concert-goers in their rainbow wear in the half-light of Albert
>>> Hall,
>>> listening intently to the wonderful music being produced. You can
>>> get
>>> seats in the balcony for 10 to 50 quid; but to stand, or to watch
>>> through the railings as I did with others, you queue for a bit, then
>>> you pay a fiver, 5 whole pounds watch the best orchestras in the
>>> world.
>>>
>>> What does it mean? who can say? Reading the wiki might give you
>>> start:
>>>
>>> FYI:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proms
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:01 PM, David Bircumshaw
>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> Apropos of things, I caught the end of our annual patriotic fest
>>>> tonight, that is to say The Last Night of the Proms: among things
>>>> that
>>>> caught my attention was that among the Union Jacks and St George's
>>>> Flags there were also a-waving Stars and Stripes, Russian
>>>> Crosses, the
>>>> Seven Sisters, a couple of Deutsch ensigns and even a Norwegian
>>>> banner. How odd!.
>>>>
>>>> Even weirder the commentator described 'Jerusalem' as being
>>>> written by
>>>> 'Sir William Blake' (!!)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Bircumshaw
>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>> "I began to warm and chill
>>> to objects and their fields"
>>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>>>
>>
>
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> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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