please empty your brain below
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Thanks for a great piece. Really made me want to be there.
Bryn Davies | 28.07.15 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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I was there last night too! I completely agree with your comment about the crying child...
Sean | 28.07.15 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Sounds great. Know what you mean about actually being there. I shall be watching Friday evening. Pity the TV speakers aren't up to that much!
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 28.07.15 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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When I was in my last year of primary school (mid 70s) the school notified us all of a series of Ernest Read concerts for children that were happening at the Royal Festival Hall.
Much to my horror my mum signed me up, and I was the only one in the school who got to spend my Saturday mornings getting culture instead of vegging in front of cartoons!
But I'll never forget feeling the power of a full orchestra reverberating through my body. Something every small child should experience.
Cornish Cockney | 28.07.15 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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The Proms alone justify the licence fee. So many fantastic moments- any performance of Beethoven's 9th (or the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain leading 1000 uke players in the Ode to Joy!), or last year Barenboim letting the orchestra conduct itself, and then conducting the audience from a side seat.... one could go on and on.
It can be a shame about some fellow audience members (I could have throttled the man who coughed loudly and demonstratively in the opening bassoon solo of the "period" reconstruction of the Rite of Spring), but among 6000 there's always one. The rest of us, like the musicians, just have to learn to ignore it and rise above it, I suppose.
Autolycus | Homepage | 28.07.15 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney,
You were not the only one going to those Ernest Read concerts.
I used to travel up with a group of other children on the Bakerloo Line from Stanmore (shows how long ago it was) to Waterloo and the Royal Festival Hall on a Saturday. I very much enjoyed the concerts as well.
kissenme | 28.07.15 - 1:20 p.m. | #
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To me the RAH is one of those places that as a Londoner one must try to go to once...it feels like a place of "common cultural heritage" ...it a shame other places do not have that same "vibe" to them, especially as some are too costly for many "original" Londoners. Maybe that is just me...though feel proud to say I went once, which now I think of it was almost 25years ago! How time flies...
Working Class Hero | 28.07.15 - 6:07 p.m. | #
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It's not summer without the Proms.
Just marvellous in every way, especially once you've figured out where the queue-less women's loos are ;-) And reconciled yourself to listening to classical music with middle-aged folk in velcro sandals and those trousers that zip off at the knee.
One Prom down, four to go for us.
EskimoPie | 28.07.15 - 9:08 p.m. | #
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At first look it appears that there is no way to Hunts Lane or Sugar House Lane as the contraflow on the westbound off slip disappears. Would have been useful if TfL had shown the new signalised junction immediately east of the flyover which starts building/disruption soon.
Why all this tinkering. The flyover is far past its sell by date, use is low, so why not do the job properly for once and pull it down and have a first class junction without the roundabout.
scrumpy | 29.07.15 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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^off thread?^ now I wonder if the "powers that be" can move it to the correct comments box?
Ultra-Man | 29.07.15 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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Did the Planets Prom last year.
The people behind us brought their children who grew bored and tired after the interval leading to then asking questions during the music and at the end I heard they had accidentally hit my partner & her friends head while draped across the parents lap.
When I found out about that in the foyer at the end, I returned to the seat and politely thanked the parents for allowing their children to spoil my partners experience.
Only to be told to p*** off, charming.
PromAnon | 29.07.15 - 1:27 p.m. | #
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I haven't been to the RAH since 1971 when I went to see Soft Machine just after they had replaced Robert Wyatt with Phil Howard. The support act was Louden Wainwright III who cut his set short after a couple of songs complaining that 'this place has ghosts' - pretentious twit!
But like DG I'm a Proms virgin, but putting that right this Sunday afternoon seeing one of my favourite pieces - Beethoven's 6th The Pastoral - and looking forward to it.
RayB | 29.07.15 - 2:28 p.m. | #
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While I agree about the child, I am far more upset by the inconsiderate coughing. I know it was cold last week but it is possible to suppress coughs if you try! The end of the piece was ruined more by the coughs even before the last chord had resonated away. I understand children really can't help it and part of me feels affection towards that child experiencing this amazing sound, and the fact that he/she had kept quiet through the entire piece and really was only reacting to being as affected by the out of this world sound as I was inside means I can forgive.. not so the coughers!!!
andrew | 31.07.15 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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Good old BBC4, they completely edited out the wailing child at the end so as not to wreck the fading choral finale. But if you watch carefully you can see the offending father running for the exit in the bottom right hand corner of the screen as the last notes drift away.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.07.15 - 10:11 p.m. | #
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I don't Prom as much as I should, but recommend trying the £5 gallery (not arena) experience next time. Shorter queue than the arena and a much more relaxed environment - similar view to DG but with the ability to walk around for variety, or to escape an annoying audience member. You can sit on the floor during the concert too unlike the arena, and the music still sounds excellent.
Edith | 01.08.15 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Last year, there was this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eqprzc
Might also have been your kind of thing?
Richard M | 03.08.15 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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