Were the vibes from the kids and Mums and Dads at the Ten Pieces Prom going to be positive? The BBC did a tremendous job with the first Ten Pieces project, designed for primary school- age children, but that was an easier job. Children of that age are open to anything, and willing to be led. ![]() Deezer est le premier site d'. But secondary school children know what they like, and tend to assume a fashionably bored pose when faced with anything uncool. Which is why the BBC played safe with the second list of Ten Pieces, designed especially for them. I remarked at the time in this paper, that you could have swapped the two lists round, without raising an eyebrow. So I approached this Prom with a certain trepidation. It promised us all Ten Pieces alongside numerous spin- off music and dance items specially composed and performed by schoolchildren from all over Britain. I imagined it would be like so many other Childrens. There were so many screens, containing some really slick animation, so many gyrating light beams cutting through the dry ice, that one could be easily overwhelmed.
Here and there the show fell into the familiar trap of sensory overload, as in the performance (given, like all the pieces, by the superbly drilled BBC Philharmonic under Alpesh Chauhan) of the panic- stricken scherzo from Shostakovich. An expressive, disciplined bunch of dancers from Wildern School in Southampton were great, and it was good to see an animated film evoking the horrors of Stalinism. But why have both together? The result was we could focus on neither. ![]() Classical Guitar Christmas Collection Guitar tablature songbook (no lyrics) for guitar. Published by Hal Leonard. Average customer rating: Essential Classical Guitar Collection Arranged by Alexander Gluklikh.What a huge step forward this was from the last time the piece was included in a Children. As a way of setting us up for Vaughan Williams. One featured a Joseph Haydn figure in full wig- and- buckles regalia, who came on to introduce his own trumpet concerto, and then wouldn. This allowed the story of Wagner. Here everything worked beautifully together, in a show that could fairly be called a triumph.
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