Howard Jacobson has a brilliant piece in today's Independent about our so-called Culture Minister Margaret Hodge's foot-in-mouth about the Proms. Could someone please a) send her a DVD of the Buskaid/English Baroque Orchestra's Prom last year, b) actually force her to watch it, c) wash her mouth out with soap? The joke is on her in the end, because she evidently is thinking of the Last Night of the Proms (the good ol' jingoism debate), and therefore makes one suspect that she doesn't know what happens there the rest of the summer...
Saturday, March 08, 2008
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Did you see the discussion at On an Overgrown Path about the Proms? He was asserting that the programming is terrible; meanwhile, those of us from this side of the Atlantic would give ANYTHING for a festival like that.
What Lisa said; we have nothing at all like the Proms here in the US. Even if 90% of the programming is pretty standard meat-and-potatoes fare, the offbeat stuff can be pretty interesting. But then, we have no organization like the BBC that can front such a festival, in New York (the most likely city for a US equivalent of the Proms, if such a thing existed) or anywhere.
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