Hull has announced a five-year partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the city's bid to become UK City of Culture. The deal will see the London-based orchestra playing concerts in the city and working with local groups on music projects. Hull is one of four cities in the running to become the UK City of Culture in 2017. The deadline for the bids is next week, with the winner announced in November. The council's head of culture, councillor Terry Geraghty, described the partnership as the "icing on the cake" of Hull's City of Culture application. Mr Geraghty said: "It gives that message that Hull is gong forward as far as culture is concerned and sport and we are now becoming one of the leading players in that field." The council said the deal would cost £120,000 but said it hoped to recoup the money through ticket sales and sponsorship. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-24212042 I think anything that improves our chances of winning the bid is a good thing, but I can see many in the City moaning about the £120k it's costing.
This is very good indeed. I hope it's well attended as empty seats would have the exact opposite effect than desired.
A little bit of me dies when I see the line I've bolded. If that's a direct quote from him too, I just despair. He makes Gwillam look eloquent.
Oh other than that buffoon, this is a great idea. People that think they'd hate something like this should give it a go, you might surprise yourself.
I surprised myself that I really like ballet after giving it a whirl (as a spectator). It's really very enjoyable. And not just cos the birds are well tasty.
Not my type of music but what a catch, for many a year I've had to travel to see some decent music, ok I have seen some great concerts at City Hall but we never seem to get top class acts whilst they are still at the top. Going back to the 60's we had the Stones, Beatles etc but they played everywhere then. I remember some big concert in East Park a few years back which had some fairly decent bands of the day, McFly was it? Anyway if you like acts that were once household names but these days half the band have died or they fell off the radar many years ago then Hull has them appearing by the bucket load, not knocking it seen some myself, but when was a top class act of the day actually appearing in the city ( and here I hold my hands up because I don't know who are the top class acts of today). So to get the Philly is a great catch and having recently seen a video on Youtube where Mike Oldfield plays along with them for his hit Moonlight Shadow then if you are in to classical type of music and maybe a little pop music then this could be your chance to catch them on the doorstep.
they're certainly pulling out all the stops re this Capital of Culture thing......... hope the City gets it
Speaking as someone who does lives elsewhere, this is a major achievement to get this. I know the councillor in question gets some real stick but what I have been reading he has done on certain things and the way he is raising the profile of the city in the right way has to be commended. When I tell people were I am from, and I always do this with pride, a few years ago peoples faces would tell they were not impressed but over the last year or so this is changing. From the outside world Hull comes across as a city on the up and fighting back a lot stronger than anywhere else. Things like this only help
It doesn't seem long since the 'City of Culture' bid was mooted and the HDM offered a readers poll on it, with the outcome being "No don't be daft" Presumably from the doley LFC carcoat or LUFC car sticker brigade who hate their home city.
How very refreshing darlings!! Might I suggest we encourage the council to celebrate this cultural coup by sponsoring a new classical concerto, or an opera, or even a ballet in tribute to the greatest football club in the world? Maybe we could have: ‘Don Giovanni’; Speaks for itself. The ‘Barber Of Gipsyville’; Of course the theme would be Huddlestone trying to avoid him. Instead of ‘La Boheme’ we could have La BoMyhill ‘The Nutcracker’ in honour of the great Ian Ashby ‘Donkeyote’ in honour of Dean Marney. ‘The Four Seasons’; 1948 – 1952 When the team was graced by a great inside forward by the name of Horatio Stratton Carter. Or instead of ‘Tosca’ we could have an opera with a similar name in honour of a certain glass-kneed cockney piss-head.
I usually attend these concerts throughout the season and they are of a very high standard. Over the last few years attendances have certainly dropped which is a great shame as I feel that they are not promoted as much as other events. Maybe somebody should have a word with Mr. Geraghty as I cannot see him raising that amount of money through ticket sales and as for sponsorship, as far as I am aware the last sponsor was KC and that was some time ago. For anyone interested in the forthcoming concerts they include The Halle, ManchesterCamerata, City of London Sinfonia and my favourite, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in May with Julian Lloyd Webber playing the Elgar Cello Concerto.
I will be there Joanna, pink carnation and carrying a copy of the Times, waiting in the lobby for ............
With this inept and cronyist council we have much more ground to make up than anywhere else. Their malign presence has blighted this city for decades and is the main reason for our decades-long decline. Could I pls appeal to everyone in Hull to vote for anyone but Labour in the local elections? If not, you're rubberstamping the election of knuckledragging failures, economic ******s, cultural neanderthals, bungling clowns, clueless nomark bastards who infest our civic life like an antibiotic-resistant strain of lifelong chlamydia.
Waiting in the lobby for "what"? If you happen to be Oscar Wilde, I'm afraid I'm the wrong sex! As a follow-up from yesterday, if the Allams sponsored the concerts for Mr. Geraghty(ha!ha!) then they could be called "The Hull Tigers Classics"!
