Last Night of the Proms

Thank goodness for the original Jerusalem!
What was that thing all about?

I loved the traditional sea songs, Rule Brittania and Land of Hope and Glory. Now traditional Jerusalem. Brilliant.

Some people think that You'll Never Walk Alone is a football anthem but to me it will always be a beautiful song from a wonderful show.

It is an anthem for our time.

You’ll Never Walk Alone & Jerusalem ??

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And now the dirge !

You'll Never Walk Alone----best song, best singer.What a lovely lady.

Actually, I thought it was a wonderful rendition of God Save The Queen and seeing the Chelsea Pensioners standing to attention added poignancy. I hope they stay safe.

Callistemon, I agree with you. A good rendition of our National Anthem, love it or hate it, we are stuck with it so I think we need to make the best of it.
This is the most difficult period in our national life. I've faced some tough times personally but made easier by the fact its been my problem, not one shared by everybody around me. So, there has been the possibility of escaping the sadness, stress or whatever I was struggling with. I'm in one of the areas with a high R rate. It's impossible to escape, even on our long walk in open countryside earlier today almost everyone we met immediately moved the distance away from each other. We met some people in masks on our walk and everyone we passed going into our local supermarket was masked .
Something especially poignant about tonights Last Night of the Proms.

It is an anthem for our time.

And so appropriate. We were in tears.

Oh dear, I think You’ll Never Walk Alone is dreadful sentimental twaddle.

I enjoyed the rest of this very strange Last Night, though. I do hope we can have the proper version next year.

Oh dear, I think You’ll Never Walk Alone is dreadful sentimental twaddle.

Horses for courses.

You have obviously never been alone and scared, Grandma70s

I was hoping to see Anoushka Shankar again. I really enjoyed her concert in the week playing the Sitar, after her late great father, Ravi.

Callistemon

^Oh dear, I think You’ll Never Walk Alone is dreadful sentimental twaddle.^

Horses for courses.

Exactly, Callistemon

You'll Never Walk Alone has had over 360 cover versions done of it. Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Perry Como, Liberace, Shirley Bassey, Doris Day, Dionne Warwick to name a few.

Hugely successful song.

Jessye Norman's version is very powerful.

It depends, what some people find twaddle others may find gives them hope in dark times.

I'm watching this on catch up and The Lark Ascending has just finished. It was wonderful. The new Jerusalem next, let's see how that goes!

Loved every moment.I thought the reset of Jerusalem was magic. I think William Blake, who wrote the words would have preferred the new versin, edgy and controversial, as was he.

I niggle why were the landscapes shown during 'A Lark Ascending' not landscapes of places where larks could be found. I do get bored with these endless landscape films of mountains and cliffs and high craggy remote places. England, and Vaughan-Williams is quintessentially English, as is the lark is a country of fields and downs (core lark territory), but only a minor niggle.

Oopsminty

Callistemon

Oh dear, I think You’ll Never Walk Alone is dreadful sentimental twaddle.

Horses for courses.

Exactly, Callistemon

You'll Never Walk Alone has had over 360 cover versions done of it. Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Perry Como, Liberace, Shirley Bassey, Doris Day, Dionne Warwick to name a few.

Hugely successful song.

There is plenty of evidence that a great many people like sentimental twaddle. I don’t, that’s all.

I have wonderful memories of walking alone through the flat, peaceful Essex countryside from Maldon to Beeleigh, where I was doing some research at the Abbey, and larks singing high up in the sky. It was magical. Many years ago, though, and perhaps it is all built on now.

I didn't mind the new version of Jerusalem at all, it was different. You'll Never Walk Alone, like Merlotgran says, an anthem for our time. I looked up "sentimental" and the definition is "prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia", so I'm OK with that.

That soprano was very good indeed, I missed her name so I'll go back and look.

And how nice to see the piper outside our bonnie V&A

Grandma70s I live on the edge of the Berkshire Downs. In the summer I walk up the hill behind my house and I can here whole choruses of larks. I havehear them on the South Downs as well.

The Lark Ascending - Nicola Benedetti's rendition was the best I have ever heard - just beautiful. But I agree that the pics that went with it were overdone and distracting - they tried to put too much in - should just have concentrated on one beautiful open area where larks might indeed be found.

The Sibelius was superb - and the cello in Tom Bowling was very moving and much better without the noisy crowds.

As for the weird arrangement of Rule Britannia - quite ridiculous and utterly pointless.

Oops, Callistemon said it was an anthem for our times, Merlotgran quoted her. Sorry ladies.

I do love a it of sentimental twaddle, especially old musicals.

But I also thought The Lark Ascending was sublime.