I nearly dissolved in giggles when the person next to me said `and the best of British' when the conductor got to the podium. They got through it intact with some wonderful playing. With an amateur ensemble you see and hear a lot more of the internal mechanism - especially with this work rather than an over smooth professional orchestra - and it was fascinating. They even continued through a fire alarm that went off during part I. Great ensemble, I really don't want to mention any particular section, very well done!
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I know someone who was playing in that. :-)
Indeed, and looking at my fuzzy photo you can just see his knees on the extreme left, rest of him didn't quite make it onto the photo :-(
I can't enlarge the photo. I mentioned the blog entry. He didn't see you, but he said that there was a large audience.
I take that back. I see a familiar pair of knees!
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