I'd be happy just to see a quartet do Vivaldis Four Seasons, I have I think maybe five different versions of that. I imagine it would be fantastic to see and hear it live.
We went down to Sanxay (near Poitiers) to watch Turandot at their annual summer three nights of open air opera. Beautiful July evening with a full orchestra providing accompaniment - fabulous.
Went home one time to see my old folks, me mam starts to tell me that the three tenors will be performing at south hunsley school and she would like to go see them. With a look of shock and surprise I say what Placido Domingo, Pavarotti and the other bloke, no no not those three tenors some other ones.
A bit of a side note - we had the piece played at our wedding 45 years ago. I've been crying ever since
Saw BBC Concert Orchestra once and they were amazing. Do it mate, you won't regret it ...just check the Allams don't own the orchestra... @FER ARK is a big orchestra / proms fan too (mind you I've seen his drinking arrangements for outdoor proms, which are...unparalleled!
Do you remember who did a comedy sketch reading out football results, one being: Forfar 4 East Fife 5 ? Somewhere in the back of my memory tells me it might have been Michael Bentine, but I'm not so sure.
I think it was Michael Bentine, be also did a commentary in which a "jovial Swiss referee" started the game but deteriorated into " a jackbooted German Swiss goose stepping back to the centre circle" as the England team slipped further backwards.
That "results readout" sketch by him was hilarious. As he read them out his voice progressively became more excited to the point where his words were almost unintelligible, only to return to one of calm when he realized they were not favouring his selections on the football pools that day. No mention of Forfar or E.Fife, so must have been in another sketch?
I used to love his "Square World" series. I think he died in bizarre circumstances when his plane crashed into trees and he was unable to get out. He hadn't filed a flight plan and wasn't found for a few days having died some time after the crash.
Sad. First heard him when he was with the early Goon Show. My old man was a big fan and he used to record the shows and played them to the family at weekends. Brilliant they were, not a word I use lightly.
It was his son that died in the plane crash, he died of natural causes aged 74. Quite a sad family, not only did the son die in fairly traumatic circumstances in the plane crash, but his two eldest daughters died of cancer in the 80's as well.
Quite right - I wasn't entirely sure but I wondered whether it was actually his son just as I posted the reply.
