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Sunday Jan 28, 2024
A Gala Performance
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sir Crispin Gardner conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sir Crispin Gardner conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.
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geezerly diatribe
3 days ago
of, & intellectualism: the last’s all right, as long as you can have it for tea. As it happens, as a banally tangibles-inclined Brit myself I did find myself wondering if the two voices were the same man’s: ‘Sir Crispin’ reverting to his roots. Probably not, but. As is frequently the case the authentic-sounding precision of the vocab, thinking of SC’s opening spiel, is pleasurable even if one is not familiar with the musical styles/terminology; as is the energy and anecdote jumping of the
3 days ago
A favourite this one - gala performance a fit title given the two ‘voices’; the core of it, the struggle with the composers’ names, is a lot of fun, esp. in the generally increasing difficulty for the listener of identifying the composers through the mangling. The meat of it (treating the humour of it as the, er, skin) might be the two voices being drawn as Brit class counterparts, specifically in their shared Britishness, the common ground they find in mistrust of them funny foreigners, names
3 days ago
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