Got the DVD for Doctor Who "The Next Doctor". The extra was "Doctor Who at the Proms", a sort of mini-concert of Doctor Who music hosted by Freema Agyeman. (Well worth a look, by the way.)
Anyway, my first thought was, "I gues 'proms' means something different to the British than it does to us."
So what what are "proms"? How are they different from a concert?
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The Proms, to give them their full title, are the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, which are held at the Royal Albert Hall between July and September every year. Mostly, they are an opportunity to hear some of the finest orchestras, musicians and singers in the world of classical music strut their stuff, but every year they do some more modern things.
A couple of years back, this was what gets termed "The Youth Prom" - here's a Youtube clip with a recording from Radio 3 of Rose's Theme from the concert.
As another example, this year they did a big MGM concert, where someone managed to remaster the old scores. Here's an example with two very unusual Prom singers....
The one on the disk had Freema, Catherine Tate, Cybermen, Judoon, some Ood, a Sontaran, Daleks, Davros and a pre-recorded bit of Tennant as the Doctor.
I've studied the DVD and you can't really see us. There is a quick shot of one of the Cybermen up in the gallery to the right of the stage which zooms out and back down to the floor quickly and I am sitting about 6 seats away from him to his right.
Scary big dude he was too.
It was great fun. The 6 year old in me imagined that the Doctor was talking to me when he was looking down from the big monitor in the roof. It means there is only one degree of seperation between me and our favourite Timelord!
The DVD cut out a lot of 'real' space-themed classical music that they padded out the show with. A pity, as it would be a good intro to classical music for a lot of people. I learned a bit myself. Did you know you can hear Jove laughing during the Jupiter section of Holst's 'The Planets'?
Freema was a very charismatic MC. She's a lovely young woman.
I'm glad I got to see a proms show in the Royal Albert Hall before I left London. It's a famous event. (It was cheap too - Art for the masses and all that!) However I felt a little guilty that me and the wife having tickets meant that some 10 year olds didn't get to see the Doctor talking directly to them!
I didn't get to wave any Union Jacks around as that is only for the last night of the proms, apparently.
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A couple of years back, this was what gets termed "The Youth Prom" - here's a Youtube clip with a recording from Radio 3 of Rose's Theme from the concert.
Rose's theme
As another example, this year they did a big MGM concert, where someone managed to remaster the old scores. Here's an example with two very unusual Prom singers....
What a swell party
I've studied the DVD and you can't really see us. There is a quick shot of one of the Cybermen up in the gallery to the right of the stage which zooms out and back down to the floor quickly and I am sitting about 6 seats away from him to his right.
Scary big dude he was too.
It was great fun. The 6 year old in me imagined that the Doctor was talking to me when he was looking down from the big monitor in the roof. It means there is only one degree of seperation between me and our favourite Timelord!
The DVD cut out a lot of 'real' space-themed classical music that they padded out the show with. A pity, as it would be a good intro to classical music for a lot of people. I learned a bit myself. Did you know you can hear Jove laughing during the Jupiter section of Holst's 'The Planets'?
Freema was a very charismatic MC. She's a lovely young woman.
I'm glad I got to see a proms show in the Royal Albert Hall before I left London. It's a famous event. (It was cheap too - Art for the masses and all that!) However I felt a little guilty that me and the wife having tickets meant that some 10 year olds didn't get to see the Doctor talking directly to them!
I didn't get to wave any Union Jacks around as that is only for the last night of the proms, apparently.