{"id":164,"date":"2006-09-04T13:28:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/04\/choosing-a-prom\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:13:05","slug":"choosing-a-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/09\/04\/choosing-a-prom\/","title":{"rendered":"choosing a Prom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The end of the Proms season is nearly here, and I realised that I hadn’t yet been to one of the concerts. I considered Monday through to Friday as possibilities:<\/p>\n

Monday: after Sunday’s concert was cancelled (and it didn’t even include A Short Ride in a Fast Machine<\/i>!) I didn’t want to commit myself by buying a train ticket when I wasn’t sure the concert would go ahead.
\nTuesday: I’m not a great fan of Rachmaninov’s orchestral music, and it’s not long since I last heard some at the Proms (a performance of The Bells<\/i>).
\nWednesday: Mahler 2 with Haitink would doubtless be wonderful, but I couldn’t get there sufficiently early to be sure of getting in, as it’s bound to be very popular.
\nFriday: ends a bit late and I don’t think that the Albert Hall is the best acoustic for listening to Mozart.<\/p>\n

So it’s going to be Bruch and Shostakovich on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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