Even if the season-wide programme doesn’t tickle my taste buds in the way it used to ten or fifteen years ago, there are distinct improvements in the TV coverage already discernible from the First Night.
As Simon Rattle’s excoriating remarks about ACE and the BBC’s commitment to classical music is published, the Corporation launches its Proms season at a decidedly lack-lustre affair. Has the BBC Proms lost its appeal?
Nothing to frighten the horses here. And maybe that’s just what the BBC needs and wants right now.
Looking to save £1.35? Why not ditch Lineker and keep the BBC Singers.
Professor Linda Bauld talks to Radio 4’s Paddy O’Connell on the risk of COVID infections at large scale gatherings as highlighted by early published papers from the Events Research Programme.
Listening to the broadcast felt like earwigging a textbook Proms gig, the kind where excitement and anticipation spill out from stage and auditorium.
MPs can pack the House of Commons with no masks, but orchestras and choirs still have to be distanced.
“Bizarrely anachronistic”? Nope. It was fascinating.
It isn’t the music itself that transforms mood, its the practise of listening attentively that brings about joy.
Don’t fall into the traps others have got caught-up in.