Blog posts by year and monthSeptember 2012
Posts (5)
Piano season on the BBC
Lang Lang - champion of Piano Season on the BBC Piano Season on the BBC is a six-week celebration of the piano and its music, on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four. This updated Blog brings together all the latest news about Piano Season on the BBC - if you'd like to revisit some of last week's high...
Nixon in Berlin with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra sub-principal viola Phil Hall and his colleagues have been in Berlin this week. Phil sends this report from Number 1, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße (aka the Philharmonie) ... The Maritim hotel near the famous Philharmonie is large. I know it's large because my room num...
When in Romania ...
The Sala Palatului, Bucharest The BBC Symphony Orchestra have been visiting Romania. Sub-principal viola Phil Hall suggests that the concert hall experience might just be a bit better for radio listeners than those in the hall ... Last week the orchestra travelled to Bucharest for two c...
Proms on TV - it's all about the rights ...
Prom 59 - Cast of The Broadway Sound Jan Younghusband, BBC Commissioning Editor, Music & Events, sums up the 2012 Proms TV coverage and explains why the John Wilson Broadway Prom was broadcast incomplete ... The television team all agreed the other day that we can't believe it's alre...
Nixon in Maida Vale (with tight pants)
John Adams conducts at the Proms BBC Symphony Orchestra sub-principal viola Phil Hall reports from John Adams's rehearsals for the opera Nixon in China at the Proms. John Adams is in his happy place. I can always tell; he starts swinging his hips to the beat, eyes closed and smili...
