The Thursday Murder Club
Sep. 5th, 2025 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiThursday's Prom was titled "Classic Thriller Soundtracks" - which was true up to a point, but had a pretty loose interpretation. The BBC Concert Orchestra was conducted by Edwin Outwater, joined at various points in the evening by presenter Edith Bowman, singers Lance Ellington and Ashton Jones, with backing vocals from Sumudu Jayatilaka, Louise Marshall, Melanie Marshall and Andrew Playfoot. I enjoyed the music I had come to hear - exceprts of Bernard Herrmann's music for the Hitchcock films North by Northwest, Psycho and Vertigo. I also enjoyed some new pieces - Korngold's Cello Concerto with soloist Sterling Elliott, Herrmann's Twisted Nerve with whistler Jona Pap, Lalo Schifrin's Bullitt and Quincy Jones' The Italian Job. Some of the other Quincy Jones pieces I wasn't so taken by; in some cases I think the front of the arena may not have had the best sound experience for the more Big Band numbers. The concert concluded with an encore from John Williams' Jaws.
The journey home was a horror story all of its own. I'd noticed in the morning that many of the GWR trains seemed to be half-length and this persisted into the evening; it was a struggle to get onto the train. With hindsight it might have been better to take a later train, but it was already late in the evening by the time we got to Paddington.
The journey home was a horror story all of its own. I'd noticed in the morning that many of the GWR trains seemed to be half-length and this persisted into the evening; it was a struggle to get onto the train. With hindsight it might have been better to take a later train, but it was already late in the evening by the time we got to Paddington.