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Subject: Proms 01: A pile of pants?


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Simon
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Date Posted: 19:47:53 24/04/2001
 Well ok, not quite pants as such. Now that the full details are available on the proms website, I've had at least one of my rumours confirmed (i.e. not much big stuff).

And boy is downloading 73 separate web pages a new experience!

I expect others will be quite excited by the programme. There's lots of big names, but the repertoire isn't that up my street. Even a Mahler addict can only listen to the first and fith syphonies a few hundred times before the freshness wears a bit thin....

The one concert I'll definitely try to get to is Haitink/Boston Symphony doing the full version (with the Tanglewood chorus) of Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe.

And probably John Adams conducting the London premiere of his own "Naive and Sentimental Music".

And I'll probably come to Slatkin doing Vaughan-Williams Sea Symphony even though I'll have heard it a fortnight previously at the 3 choirs festival. Given that I've been banging on about the absence of this work from the proms for a decade, and that the combination of the BBC symphony and Philharmonia Choruses will probably be superlative, I'd better show up.

Beyond that, it'll be an unusually cheap summer.

Hope there's something there for everyone else!
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