London orchestra gets into Downing Street
Orchestraspress release:
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) will this evening, Tuesday 30 April, give the inaugural concert in a new series entitled ‘Notes from Downing Street’ in the historic State Room at No. 11 Downing Street.
The UK is genuinely world-leading when it comes to music. It is the world’s second largest music exporter, contributing £6.7bn GVA to the UK economy; it delivers proven educational, health, wellbeing, and societal benefits; and has the intrinsic ability to move and inspire us all. It is envisaged that the new series will celebrate exceptional musical talent from around the United Kingdom, bringing music into the heart of Downing Street.
During the concert, Principal musicians of the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet; ‘Clarinet Lament’ from David Schiff’s Ducal Suite (After Duke Ellington); and George Gershwin’s It Ain’t Necessarily So.
A feel-good article for a kingdom that is a pale shadow of its former vast colonial empire.
You really are a joy, aren’t you?
Get out much?
Good! keep politicians busy listening to music, so that they have no time for destroying humanity, Nature and the economy with their favourite sport: war.
How ridiculous when did any of the imbeciles currently in power ever go to a concert etc.?
I attended an orchestral concert this year at the Southbank Centre at which the Chancellor was present. A friend of mine also spotted Michael Gove at a performance last weekend.
Might be a tight squeeze. Will the Sunaks be joining them
Word reliably has it that at last year’s Last Night of the BBC Proms, several private boxes at the Royal Albert Hall were excitedly filled by the likes of Oliver Dowden, Lucy Frazer, Richard Tice and his lovely wife Isabel Oakshott. Never ones to miss an opportunity at revelling in old school nationalism, they were horrified to discover that thousands in the audience had gladly taken freely handed out EU flags outside the hall, rendering the musical totem in their culture war hilariously inverted.
You see, the music industry is reeling from the cultural isolationism of Brexit: The rogues gallery of its cheerleaders must now suck up a national rejection of that which they have inflicted.
Much safer to hole yourself up in Downing Street and listen to a spot of chamber music. While it lasts….power, that is.
Enjoy again:
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