BBC Proms Mix #2

More promenaders -

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine – BBC Proms 2014

John Adams - Harmonium - BBC Proms 2017

Steve Reich in 360° - Music For A Large Ensemble - BBC Proms

Take your seat right in amongst the members of the Multi-Story Orchestra as they perform Steve Reich's Music For A Large Ensemble!

This BBC Prom at the Bold Tendencies car park in Peckham, South East London, was the first Prom ever to be held in a car park.


Enjoy.

BBC Proms Mix #4

Leaving mix 3 for tomorrow now for allyou Whovians.
Meanwhile, more eclectic Prom nights.

The Unthanks - "Mount the Air" at the BBC Folk Prom 2018

From the BBC4 programme "Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain an
The Unthanks are accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell.

The Unthanks - "Magpie" at the BBC Folk Prom 2018

György Ligeti - Requiem (Full concert)

Beware of those black monoliths outside your window.

MY GOD, IT IS FULL OF STARS!

Enjoy

BBC Proms Mix #5

Another Prom mix -

Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres

The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester playing at the Royal Albert Hall on September 4th 2009.
Jonathan Nott conducting the Summer Tour 2009 of one of the best youth orchestras in the world.

"Atmospheres" by György Ligeti (1923-2006).

Ligeti created extraordinary soundworlds.No wonder Kubrick used his music for 2001.


Public Service Broadcasting - Go! (Proms 2019)

Public Service Broadcasting - Gagarin

Public Service Broadcasting perform Gagarin at Prom 10 of the 2019 Proms season.

BBC Proms 2011: Percy Grainger - Shepherd's Hey - medley

A Late Night Prom celebrating anniversary composer Percy Grainger. Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell leads the way into the musical world of a composer she finds 'quirky and outrageous and very unconventional', concentrating on Grainger's fascinating and varied responses to folk music.

Kathryn Tickell Band
Northern Sinfonia
John Harle (conductor).

BBC Proms 2011: Ennio Morricone: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Nitty Scott And Others Live at BBC PROM 35: "New York: Sound of A City"

Nitty Scott performs live from the legendary Royal Albert Music Hall at the BBC prom 35: “New York: Sound of A City” // A pairing of unique NYC voices & the 60-piece Heritage Orchestra for a boundary-pushing mix of sounds and genres conducted by Jules Buckley.

Awesome!

Enjoy.

BBC Proms Mix #3

Some more from the Albert Hall -

Doctor Who Proms 2013

Good Morning

Just Wondering

What’s the most marvellous thing you have ever seen with your own eyes?

When did you last say thank you and sincerely mean it?

What’s something you haven't done in a long time and really miss?

Day Off

Lovely sunbathing day.
Hence not working
and kinda shirking
So as they say
I will be out there
Reading all day.

Book 67 - Elizabeth Hardwick "Sleepless Nights"

Elizabeth Hardwick "Sleepless Nights"   (Faber & Faber)





This slim volume is described as a novel, but it is really a series of prose pictures. In the opening pages, the narrator is musing about memory and the remainder of the book is a collection of memories which creates a kaleidoscope of the author's life. There is absolutely no plot or any attempt at chronological order, just vivid narratives of people and places.

And, I think, a picture is the correct word to describe these vignettes. Hardwick, in almost painfully lovely words, had written something so visual that I could clearly see a scene as if I were in an art gallery and viewing it as a painting. There are cleaning ladies serving the Fifth Avenue clients and the laundress wringing out the sheets of the privileged of Back Bay; the amorous doctor in Amsterdam juggling a wife and two mistresses; the lover who was perfect, except he wasn't; the characters from the Blue Grass part of Kentucky. And, in the most famous of the ten chapters, Hardwicks's devastating and alluring portrait of Billie Holiday.


There are metafictional touches here, where she makes it clear she's generating a semi-fictional world out of reality. The lack of apparent structure, the flitting between one topic and another is a reflection of the writer's meandering mind, but also a reflection of the energetic chaos of the city where the book is largely based.

This is clearly a literary work, for people who are very well-read - many of the allusions could be lost by some people but nevertheless, there's no denying the poetic style and her ability to capture a mood and people from her life in ways that seem to belie the suggestion that this is some fictional recreation.


Highly recommended.

August

As the day unfolds
Into an acrimonious twilight
From the obscuring jungle of the day
The embers of last month
Has finally been washed away.

As the summer slumbers on
Stumbling towards the fall
Leaving regrets and sorrows in the dust
Turning over new verdant thoughts
Into the autumnal acerbic pavane of August.

Recent Pics

A couple I took on Wednesday.



Central Faversham, town square.



English wheat beer at my local Spoons.



An evening listening to some hip hop and a pile of folk music.

A Tribe Called Quest -  Midnight Marauders CD was on the deck at the time.

Music For The Night People

Oh yeah, soundtrack diggin'

Miles Davis & John Lee Hooker - End Credits (Hot Spot ost)

Ennio Morricone - The Mission Theme

Barrington Pheloung - Theme From 'Inspector Morse'

Anna Ternheim - Quiet Night (Wallander Theme Tune)

enjoy.

TPN's Buffy Guide Season 5 Ep. 2 "Real Me"

From my fave nerd - TPN -latest Buffy guide.


TPN's Buffy Guide Season 5 Ep. 2 "Real Me"

Now, where is your next Angel guide?

TPN's Firefly Guide Season One Episode 1 "Serenity"

And for you sci-fi cowboy junkies-

TPN's Firefly Guide Season One Episode 1 "Serenity"

.and why you should watch it.

Good Night