09-09-2018, 08:17 AM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by EZ Rider
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It happens to me Twink. No such thing as a stiff upper lip on certain occasions such as this.
09-09-2018, 10:55 AM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiWatched it, loved it.
I have my silly jacket and sparkly Union Jack bow tie.
If ever you're in London and get the chance to do the Tour of the R.A.H. it's well worth it, amazingly interesting and you learn so much.
09-09-2018, 10:59 AM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by ruthio
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When I saw the sparkly union jack bow ties some if the orchestra were wearing, I thought of you!!If ever you're in London and get the chance to do the Tour of the R.A.H. it's well worth it, amazingly interesting and you learn so much.
09-09-2018, 11:07 AM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I had trouble just sitting in one of the boxes. It's a bit too high for my liking.
I went once with a friend and at the interval she felt quite unwell because if the height, and we asked the girl on the door if we could sit somewhere else. She was lovely, called someone on her phone and along he came with a fist full of returns!
We sat (at no extra cost) in seats alongside the choir, brilliant.
The girl told us of one woman who, when she saw how high it was as she went through the opening, almost fainted.
They literally had to peel her off the wall!
09-09-2018, 12:09 PM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by Twink55
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I only managed to see the last half hour, but as usual, the last few songs brought tears to my eyes. It is a bit like watching a film that always makes you cry....you don't want to cry, but you refuse to miss the film.
Does this happen to others?
The Britain of between, say, Elizabethan days and the 1950s, when we were an example to the world.
Somehow, I just don't seem able to feel the same pride today.
09-09-2018, 01:22 PM
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Re: Last night of the proms
I watch TLNOTP every year and did last night burt I think that will be iut for the future. It is not the music, however predictable, that will always be worth listening to. It is the totally unspontaneous, same old, same old 'funny' antics by some of the promenaders. Ooh! Let's blow a hooter, that will be funny and original, won't it? Let's do this, do that, exactly as it is always done, everyone will laugh because they have been schooled to not because they still find it funny, surely???I find it all so tiresome, predictable and along with the pseudopatriotic, manufactured fervour, recalling a past that never existed, I think I will give it a miss in future.
09-09-2018, 02:38 PM
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Re: Last night of the proms
Originally Posted by Devo
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I watch TLNOTP every year and did last night burt I think that will be iut for the future. It is not the music, however predictable, that will always be worth listening to. It is the totally unspontaneous, same old, same old 'funny' antics by some of the promenaders. Ooh! Let's blow a hooter, that will be funny and original, won't it? Let's do this, do that, exactly as it is always done, everyone will laugh because they have been schooled to not because they still find it funny, surely???I find it all so tiresome, predictable and along with the pseudopatriotic, manufactured fervour, recalling a past that never existed, I think I will give it a miss in future.
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