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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2013 6:20:03 GMT -5
Good afternoon to you all! I trust that you are all enjoying the 2013 Proms Season as much as we are this summer! ' The Third' is an online discussion forum, part of the explosion in social media on the world wide web at the beginning of the twenty-first century, but more significantly, it is also a noble attempt to welcome back the splendour of broadcasting to a brave new digital age. Everyone reading ' The Third' is cordially invited to join us in this exciting endeavour. FT - BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London – reviewWriting in the FT, Richard Fairman reports that a free Prom is one of the innovations of the BBC Proms 2013. With good-value standing places, radio and television broadcasts, and online streaming via the BBC’s iPlayer, access is hardly an issue for the Proms, but a free concert would be worthwhile, if it can be shown genuinely to have brought new faces along. BBC - PromsDue to unprecedented demand from around the world, everyone reading ' The Third' is cordially invited to join us for Prom 60 promptly at 18:00 (BST) on the evening of Tuesday 27 August 2013 for the Glyndebourne Festival’s production of Britten’s ' Billy Budd'. FT - Billy Budd, Glyndebourne, East Sussex, UK – reviewBBC Proms - Prom 60: Britten – Billy BuddThe Third - BuddFor those who can attend, we shall meet at 6:00pm at the Berry Bros. & Rudd No.3 Bar and toast Billy! Berrys’ No.3 Bar at The Royal Albert Hallbritten 100For those who cannot attend in person, you can always listen or even watch online, and there are plenty of other Proms to choose from in the Calendar! The Third - CalendarIn many ways, BBC Radio 3 and the Proms have successfully dumbed up, rather than down, in 2013. A complete Ring cycle is but one example, amongst many! It can be argued that in the 119th year of the Proms, the festival not only remains true to its original aim, to present the widest possible range of music, performed to the highest standards, to large audiences, but also challenges the alert and receptive listener as never before. YouTube - Proms Ring 2013 Barenboim Staatskapelle Gotterdammerung curtain speechHere in ' The Third', we salute everyone involved on such an outstanding achievement in 2013! Against all expectations, we new Elizabethans have become, once again, such stuff as dreams are made on. Congratulations to all!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 2:17:15 GMT -5
I think of the proms as a time to give radio 3 a rest, as much prefer the regular schedule.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 2:48:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 3:32:54 GMT -5
We had free tickets, we enjoyed the day up to the prom and it reminded me not to eat at the albert hall and avoid the proms.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 4:48:57 GMT -5
Out of interest, what did you eat at the Royal Albert Hall, Jason? One of the reasons why I am able to go to the Proms so much is because many of my clients like to be wined and dined, and amongst arts as opposed to sporting venues (businesspeople tend to prefer sport to art), the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Opera House and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), in particular, have proven to be very successful venues indeed. I can recommend rillettes of pork with Scotch egg and crackling, gin and tonic cured gravadlax and baked Saint-Marcellin cheese in the Berrys' basement bar, although to be honest, if you want a decent meal, you are probably better off chez c. The Third - Ratatouille[/i][/quote] Bible Gateway - John 21:12 (King James Version) That’s John 21:12. Now, come and have breakfast, Jason. FT - The meaning of breakfast
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 7:18:38 GMT -5
I propose we retreat to bunkers in the alps and then organise the release of germ warfare to wipe out the rest of mankind so we can emerge with our blue eyed blonde babes and repopulate the world with what we believe to be right and just, including a mixed prom
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 7:55:48 GMT -5
Stephen Hawking, too, is worried about the dangers of biological weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and it strikes me, as a life scientist, that this kind of scenario is more than likely at some point during the third millennium (AD/CE). Of course, if we are lucky, we shall die before any such Armageddon anyway, Jason, but as a biblical metaphor, we have eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is difficult to put scientific knowledge, and technological applications, back on the tree, so to speak. We cannot uninvent nuclear technology, for example. In terms of kleines c's blonde bombshells, well, they survive, at least in northern Europe, and the highest proportion of redheads is to be found in Scotland! I, too, have some Scottish blood, but rather less than a quarter, ahinton. As for the Proms, well, Richard Wagner certainly explored some of these conflicts in his great Ring cycle, but I cannot help but think that we should step back from the Rhinegold! In its place, I propose another type of Rhine gold, perhaps a fine German Riesling and a toast: to the Proms, the Promenaders and all of you! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (Monday lunch)! BBR - 2009 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Spätlese H. Dönnhoff, Nahe
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 8:01:38 GMT -5
you lack zer will to power !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2013 5:21:34 GMT -5
This may well be the case, Jason! I can only offer you and everyone else reading ' The Third' and other social media my full and unreserved apologies once again! Out of interest, have you ever considered the illusion of power? No matter that we may mount on stilts, Jason, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom! As for the BBC Proms, on topic, Marin Alsop tells Harriet Alexander why she’s so excited to be the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms – despite having to wear a wrist splint. Writing in ' The Sunday Telegraph', Harriet concludes thus: The Sunday Telegraph - Last Night of the Proms: 'All that flag-waving and rousing music. I can’t wait,' says Marin AlsopI propose some toast: to the Proms, the BBC and ' The Third'! Three cheers from kleines c and the gang (whatever you are drinking)!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 8:45:23 GMT -5
. . . she’s so excited . . . In the Spectator of 11th November, 1978, the admirable Richard Ingrams wrote as follows: "One of the prizes offered to the lucky winners of Bruce Forsyth's joke contest was a free trip for two to America. I suppose that to almost every one except me such a prize would seem like a dream come true. To certain friends, Sir Peter Jaybotham for example, America represents an earthly paradise, home not only of the brave, but of the rich, the sun-tanned, the powerful and the sexy. The B.B.C.'s Head of Arts and Music, Mr. Humphrey Burton, is obviously another such man. Why else should almost all his concerts be American? Only the other day we had, live by satellite, Giulini conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. That very week I had heard, live by my own ears, Menuhin conducting the Royal Philharmonic at the Festival Hall. It occurred to me at the time to wonder why it was that the B.B.C., which for all its general pitifulness has done a lot to promote classical music in this country, should prefer to sponsor an American rather than a British occasion. You would think, artistic considerations apart, that it would be considerably cheaper. "I was glad to see Mr. Burton getting stick from other critics last week. 'Drivel' is not a word one is used to reading in a Daily Telegraph headline. They brought it out however to describe Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (BBC-2), an Omnibus programme devoted to the life and times of an American journalist by the name of Hunter S. Thompson. No one, apart from people like Clive James, had heard of the fellow - an unpleasant bald bore with a ranch in Colorado and a Mynah bird called Edward - and there was some argument about why the B.B.C. should give over its main Arts programme to his tedious views. Again I suspect the explanation is simply that the producers had an urge to go to America." So many still wonder do they not.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 9:37:35 GMT -5
I suppose that it is therefore worth asking whether the BBC has an American bias, Sydney, and whether such a bias is in any sense, justified? Well, if the nineteenth century belonged to Europe, and more particularly to Britain, the twentieth century became increasingly the American century. As the economic gravity of the global economy shifts inexorably westwards across the Pacific Ocean at the turn of the third millennium, welcome to the dawn of the Asian century. As a child of the Cold War, Sydney, I suppose that I was born into an Anglo-American culture, and this perhaps explains why we see the President of the United States of America (USA) as the leader of the 'free' world! The distinguished right-wing British historian, Norman Davies, wrote a book about Europe in the 'nineties, and it contains a series of Capsules about Music and other subjects. On the subject of popular music, he concludes thus: Amazon - Europe: A HistoryIt is worth adding, I think, that on ' The Third Programme', BBC Radio 3 and at the BBC Proms, we still see this culture war taking place. Classical music vies for attention on BBC Radio 3 alongside jazz and world music, and many of the most popular Proms have a distinct American bias. The Pax Americana may have come to an end in the twenty-first century, Sydney, but its cultural legacy remains?
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