In message <***@mid.individual.net>, Sid Nuncius
<***@hotmail.co.uk> writes:
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Post by Sid NunciusOh, and Eternal Source Of Light Divine always moves me because it is
*so* beautiful, Sheku Kanneh-Mason was amazingly cool and quite
brillant, I enjoyed the gospel choir (although I'd have liked a bit
more swing and oomph somewhere) and the music in general was a pleasure.
Though I was with the others who sighed with relief when he moved into
Ave Maria.
A certain bit of crassness though: I had the coverage on in the
background, but when BBC1 went into football, I switched to ITV, which
continued to cover it for a bit longer, as I'm _really_ not interested
in football. But ITV has commercials - fair enough, it's its nature -
but, in I think several consecutive ad. breaks, they were pushing
S K-M's first album, with "selected to play at ... wedding". Now, I
mostly blame his record company, and also I do appreciate that it's
difficult for any musician, especially a classical one - but it did seem
a _bit_ OTT to be plugging it before his cello was cold, so to speak.
..
(I've just got the BBC news channel on. They _are_ covering some other
news, but still lots of Wedding. I don't really mind by now.) They - or
at least those of the commentators who feel placed to do so - do keep
commenting on The Dress. I'm afraid I found the train both excessive and
pointless; the dress itself, i. e. what was actually covering her,
looked fine, especially with a beautiful young woman inside it; however,
I've never quite been at home with (or, for that matter, familiar with
the symbolism of) wedding dress trains, and this was a long one. (I've
heard about the representation of the commonwealth by lots of
embroidery, but that was the veil rather than the train, wasn't it?)
Neither of them fluffed their lines ... (Diana the most famous ...)
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