Jonas Kaufmann is docked by Prince Charles
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HRH The Prince of Wales today conferred honours to leading names in the international music world at a ceremony held in the Royal College of Music’s (RCM) historic Blomfield Building in South Kensington. … Those honoured today include internationally acclaimed conductor and Music Director of the Royal Opera House Sir Antonio Pappano, who received an honorary doctorate from the College for his remarkable contribution to music. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann also received an honorary doctorate from the RCM today.
Among the individuals made Fellows of the RCM today were Music Director of English National Opera Martyn Brabbins, Grammy-nominated composer, Classic FM’s Composer in Residence and RCM Visiting Professor Debbie Wiseman OBE and Academy-Award-winning composer Rachel Portman OBE. Portman was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Musical or Comedy Score (for Emma in 1996). She was also the first woman to receive the Richard Kirk Award at the BMI Film & TV Awards for her contributions to film and television music.
Prestige, at last – after all these bloomin’ ECHO Klassik awards which are worth nothin’!
They both deserve the awards. Conductor and singer
Please change the headline. Do you know what docking is? DON’T google it on your work computer!
I did’t know either, and consulted the Urban Dictionary.
Can’t imagine them doing it…
I can. It isn’t pretty.
There appears to be a taste for vulgarity around here. Part of the famous double entendre culture so beloved of the Carry On gang. Some of us outgrow it.
I’m always grateful to have my general knowledge and urban vocabulary enhanced, even if only by a SD headline.
And even knowing what Carry On is ages us immensely.
Ever heard of TV? I first found them on occasional Saturday afternoon slots.
I now occasionally dredge one up online to hearken back to simpler times, when innuendos were innocent. I could just come here, but here they always seem contrived to generate clicks and it takes some of the charm of Carry-On away.
It’s mentioned in the last Deapool movie. You’re not a Deadpool fan? It would make a great opera!
I was wondering what the hell “docked” meant in English slang as opposed to all the meanings I am used to inferring from seeing the word. But I finally twigged what you were doing.
Headline writers…bane of my existence when I was a journalist. xD
It’s a word I’ve never heard. Guess Norman invented it not realising that it was already being used…..elsewhere!
Oh, I don’t think he was guessing. He is, after all, a writer.
You appear to have an exceedingly limited vocabulary. Quite apart from the urban dictionary I suggest that you should try looking in any ordinary dictionary – even one from a few decades ago it has late middle English derivations from earlier Dutch and German. Hardly a new word.
What’s Charles doing handing out honorary degrees?
Picking up the slack left by his brother and son. Can’t a granddad retire?
Charles is the President of the RCM, so it’s hardly surprising that he should hand out its honorary degrees.
Why is HRH wearing the EU colours?
Because they are the colours of the RCM, too.
Ha! Outstanding! That headline got me to click!