tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6170069301056145526..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Bring back gregarious chant to BBC PromsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-7042891170896921792022-12-01T22:44:11.236+00:002022-12-01T22:44:11.236+00:00I make the occasional shout still these days. I...I make the occasional shout still these days. I've got too old and ill for even managing one concert in the 2022 season, but, it was me who shouted 'It's nice to be back' in 21 :-)<br /><br />Chanting needs a few 'Regulars' to carry it off. The charity chant remains each night though !Simonronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03430753156089283626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-4334189918424962802008-09-17T12:02:00.000+01:002008-09-17T12:02:00.000+01:00In my Promming 20s I was guilty of more than my fa...In my Promming 20s I was guilty of more than my fair share of chant-organising. Yes, the in-jokes were meaningless to the majority but usually not to the conductors and players at whom they were often directed. (Andrew Davies, once known to us as Goldilocks, clearly appreciated being asked "Who's a Golden Oldie now, then?" on his return to the podium sporting a beard grown whilst away conducting the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.) And during Robert Ponsonby's reign as BBC Controller of Music there were so many pretentious programme notes at which to take pot shots....<BR/><BR/>However, our derision of those who applauded in the wrong place was fiercer even than yours, Pliable, and we denigrated them as tourists. From my vantage point in the Balcony last week it was obvious that the offending interruptions still come predominantly from those seated rather than the Prommers. Given that the mediocre performance (Richard Morrison says it all here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/proms/article4752620.ece) contained little to stimulate such spontaneous appreciation, the supposition that those who break spells by clapping between movements are only occasional visitors to the concert hall appears as valid today as it was in the 1970s.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to be proved wrong but I doubt that the chanting will return: it was born of the camaraderie between vocal twenty-somethings and teenagers who now seem chronically under-represented in the Arena. Perhaps this is because students can no longer afford the luxury of summer afternoons spent queueing outside the Hall?Horkesmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868565520414831622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-22451593216089285392008-08-06T15:03:00.000+01:002008-08-06T15:03:00.000+01:00What shall I chant then?What shall I chant then?Sweet Camden Lasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983732031040847147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-29424333911065360572008-08-05T23:08:00.000+01:002008-08-05T23:08:00.000+01:00Tonight's Prom showed just how stupid the habit of...Tonight's Prom showed just how stupid the habit of applauding between movements at the Proms has become.<BR/><BR/>A burst of applause after a particularly fine performance of a symphonic movement is understandable.<BR/><BR/>But tonight's Dvorak 6 by the Netherlands Philharmonic was pedestrian to say the least. But still the prommers kept applauding.<BR/><BR/>Hello Mum, I'm at the Proms and that's me clapping ...Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com