May. 31st, 2021

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Phew!!! It is a hot one today. 24C in the garden with high UV as well! Been sunbathing and the tan is really coming on strong. But then it can get a bit too much, so I have come inside for a while.

I also have been reading a few chapters from the following reads -



Whilst in town on Saturday I noticed this excellent street basker strumming on his guitar singing Dylan songs.



He made sure he was in the shade as well.

Summer is here at last!

Proms 2021

May. 31st, 2021 08:40 pm
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This Indian variation of the virus seems to be the fly in the ointment of full recovery from the pandemic. We are due to be free from restrictions come the 21st of this month. I hope to odes because soon we will back in the Proms season again (July - Sept) and I do really want to at least one classical concert in the city. Ideally an evening with modern composers rather than the standard rep.

Royal Albert Hall


Stravinsky's Pulcinella will be highlighted one evening in the series, and this one sounds fascinating -

Parallel Universes
Royal Albert Hall

Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’.

Also, this one sounds interesting -

Vladimir Jurowski makes his final appearance as the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor – a position he has held for 14 years – in a concert of the 20th-century repertoire he has championed so passionately during his time in London.

This has to be a highlight -

Nubya Garcia
Royal Albert Hall

British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of UK jazz talent. Tonight’s performance marks her much-anticipated Proms debut.

.. and this one -

The BBC Singers & Shiva Feshareki
Royal Albert Hall

Experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki joins Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers for a choral playlist colliding the Renaissance with the present day.

Well, I could go on but I do hope that these live events will have audiences again.
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Some modern music from this bunch - they will be at the BBC Proms as well this year.


Manchester Collective – Philip Glass: Company I.



Manchester Collective - The Centre is Everywhere



The Centre is Everywhere · Manchester Collective · Edmund Finnis · Brendan Williams · Adam Szabo

The Centre is Everywhere
℗ Bedroom Community
Released on: 2021-03-26
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Right, I know, keep forgetting, so a bonus lot today -

Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight Main Theme



Bernard Hermann - The Day The Earth Stood Still



John Barry - On Her Majesty's Secret Service



Roy Budd - Main Theme / Carter Takes A Train



Richard Rodney Bennett - Far From the Madding Crowd




ENJOY
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Making up for a lack of recently ...

Anna Meredith - Unfurl



Eriks Esenvalds - Stars



Snorri Hallgrímsson - Chasing the Present



Tim Hecker - A Sodium Codec Haze



Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Houston, the 5th




ENJOY

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