To the “classical” music nerds, and just the nerds (of the Doctor Who variety)
*dusts off journal*
OK, I’m back after a long rest. Proper update in a bit (in brief: have a new completed first draft, have a new job, have a vastly improved sabre ranking, feel infinitely better in myself than I did seven months ago, several good things).
As I was trying to plan my Proms schedule, I figured that now would be the right time to invite other people to join in. First stop is the nerdly one - there is going to be a Doctor Who Prom on Saturday 13th July - music created for the series and existing classical music that has appeared in the series (the last Doctor Who Prom included the Mars movement from the Planets, for instance: this one has promised bits of Bizet, Debussy and Bach).
Second stop (first in chronology): First Night on 12th July, if the tickets don’t run out while I’m refreshing the page - the sea interludes from Peter Grimes, both Lutoslawski and Rachmaninoff’s variations on Paganini, and Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony.
Third stop: Sunday 1st September - Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz and Saint-Saëns.
To be considered is 16th July: Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto, accompanied on the programme by Nielsen’s 4th Symphony and a by modern composer called David Matthews whose contribution will last twenty minutes. Also 2nd August: Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto, accompanied on the programme by a modern composer called Naresh Sohal whose contribution will last 45 minutes (offputting?) and by Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.
If you want to come to any of these as a mini-group outing, please let me know by 10th May, and I will book tickets on 11th. I imagine First Night tickets and Doctor Who Prom tickets will go pretty quickly.
In addition:
All the Ring operas are running, on 22nd, 23rd, 26th and 28th July, plus a few other Wagner operas, but not my two favourites (Flying Dutchman and Meistersinger).
The programme is, as usual, packed with assorted Sibelius, Prokofiev, more Britten, more Rachmaninoff, more Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, two Mahler symphonies (2 and 5), etc., etc.
If you have a burning need to go to any of these and want a music buddy I will be happy to go with you unless I’m in Edinburgh or am at a tournament.
OK, I’m back after a long rest. Proper update in a bit (in brief: have a new completed first draft, have a new job, have a vastly improved sabre ranking, feel infinitely better in myself than I did seven months ago, several good things).
As I was trying to plan my Proms schedule, I figured that now would be the right time to invite other people to join in. First stop is the nerdly one - there is going to be a Doctor Who Prom on Saturday 13th July - music created for the series and existing classical music that has appeared in the series (the last Doctor Who Prom included the Mars movement from the Planets, for instance: this one has promised bits of Bizet, Debussy and Bach).
Second stop (first in chronology): First Night on 12th July, if the tickets don’t run out while I’m refreshing the page - the sea interludes from Peter Grimes, both Lutoslawski and Rachmaninoff’s variations on Paganini, and Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony.
Third stop: Sunday 1st September - Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz and Saint-Saëns.
To be considered is 16th July: Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto, accompanied on the programme by Nielsen’s 4th Symphony and a by modern composer called David Matthews whose contribution will last twenty minutes. Also 2nd August: Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto, accompanied on the programme by a modern composer called Naresh Sohal whose contribution will last 45 minutes (offputting?) and by Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.
If you want to come to any of these as a mini-group outing, please let me know by 10th May, and I will book tickets on 11th. I imagine First Night tickets and Doctor Who Prom tickets will go pretty quickly.
In addition:
All the Ring operas are running, on 22nd, 23rd, 26th and 28th July, plus a few other Wagner operas, but not my two favourites (Flying Dutchman and Meistersinger).
The programme is, as usual, packed with assorted Sibelius, Prokofiev, more Britten, more Rachmaninoff, more Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Dvorak, Elgar, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, two Mahler symphonies (2 and 5), etc., etc.
If you have a burning need to go to any of these and want a music buddy I will be happy to go with you unless I’m in Edinburgh or am at a tournament.