Monday, August 23, 2010

Opening Night of the BBC Proms

To wrap up our summer Philharmonic Society festival trip, we finished in London with a couple of plays – Warhorse and Pricilla, Queen of the Desert - and the opening night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Here is a clip of that performance:



Youtube has disabled the embedding for this second video I want to share with you, so here is a link to another clip of the 2006 Proms final night conducted by my old friend Sir Mark Elder. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0oCmDXrVk

Food in London is great. Try St. John, J. Sheekey (the best seafood) and Just St. James (in early summer you have to have the Jersey gold potatoes and you will find Nutbourne Wine here).

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