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		<title>DON GIOVANNI (ROH, 2012-01-21)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First impressions are important. As the first few seconds – or so we are informed – of a job interview are vital, despite the main body of questioning occurring later, vital also are the first few minutes of an opera’s overture in setting the tone for the drama to come. Unfortunately the people sitting behind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=980&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NIELSEN&#8217;S FLUTE PARTY, A MANDARIN AND A MERMAID (Barbican, 2011-11-09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Nielsen had an exceptional understanding of the nuances of woodwind instruments, and when playing the parts he wrote for flautists, the affection is almost palpable. Towards the end of his composing career, he thought of different orchestral instruments as having distinct personalities, and composed their interactions accordingly. While Nielsen may have once said that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=976&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up: Autumn 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Players Opera Group Concert performance of Wagner&#8217;s Götterdämmerung. Time  10.30am, Sunday 25 September Place  Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh, EH15 1AF Tickets  voluntary £15 admission charge Whitehall Orchestra A rare chance to hear Eugene d&#8217;Albert&#8217;s 2nd Piano concerto, played by Alan Brown (http://bit.ly/AlanBrown), plus Wagner&#8217;s Meistersinger Overture and Elgar&#8217;s 1st Symphony. Time  7.30pm, Thursday 24 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=954&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROMS 2011: Israel Philharmonic, Palestinian protest (2011-09-01, RAH)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prom 62: Webern, Bruch, Albéniz, Rimsky-Korsakov In the past I&#8217;ve seen (and, in fact, being on the receiving end of &#8211; but that&#8217;s another story) political protests outside orchestra concerts, but until now, never seen a concert being disrupted from inside. I think we can safely assume you don’t come to this blog looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=943&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROMS 2011: Pahud &amp; LeSage (2011-08-22) plus flute-related ramblings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proms Chamber Music 6: Martinů, Dutilleux, Prokofiev I don’t go to chamber music concerts very often, and even more rarely ones where I don’t have a friend or two among the performers. It’s not that I dislike chamber music, but without complex orchestral textures and polyphonies, I find it difficult to get lost in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=937&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROMS 2011: Kennedy plays Bach (2011-08-06, RAH)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prom 31: Kennedy plays Bach I was both very excited and rather apprehensive about this concert, and anyone who has read my previous post on Nigel Kennedy will understand why. I was looking forward to my favourite violinist playing one of the best composers in history, but also steeled for a fair amount of waiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=864&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROMS 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No notes, no research – just some thoughts and observations. Prom 9: Sibelius, Bartók, Janáček What to say about this concert? None of the works are new or unrecorded, so description unnecessary; I don&#8217;t know any of the works well enough to make comparisons with other interpretations of them. So &#8211; the Sibelius Scènes historiques [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=855&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROMS 2011: Havergal Brian &#8216;Gothic&#8217; Symphony (2011-07-17, RAH)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, for various reasons, I decided not to do the press thing at the Proms. I&#8217;ve enjoyed writing formal reviews and probably will again, but for now am taking a break. So, no notes taken or facts researched &#8211; just some thoughts and observations as they occur. Prom 4: Havergal Brian Symphony No. 1 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=825&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming up: Whitehall Orchestra concert with Nelly Miricioiu, Sat 9 July</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time 7.30pm, Saturday 09-Jul-2011 Place St Johns Smith Square, London, London SW1P 3HA, United Kingdom Great music from stage and screen, with Nelly Miricioiu (http://bit.ly/NellyM) singing a selection of her favourite opera arias, plus Tchaikovsky&#8217;s Swan Lake ballet suite, Ravel&#8217;s La Valse, and Bernstein&#8217;s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Tchaikovsky Ballet Suite from Swan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=807&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RITES 3D (Southbank Centre, 2011-04-23)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the plenitude – some might say surfeit – of 3D films gracing the cinemas in the last year or so, its use in orchestral concerts and ballet performances is still rare enough to generate a deal of interest. Of course, the fusing of live orchestral music with recorded video is not new, whether it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silverfin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=454158&amp;post=811&amp;subd=silverfin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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