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When an Audience Becomes the Show
1992
Overview
Traditionally, the program after the intermission starts off with at least semi-serious fare, during which the audience maintains the traditional Proms attentiveness. On Saturday there was the Brahms \"Academic Festival\" Overture in the Malcolm Sargent arrangement, which allows the BBC Chorus to intone the \"Gaudeamus Igitur\" tune that Brahms had set instrumentally; arias by Korngold, Catalani and Puccini for Miss Te Kanawa; Sullivan's youthful and trivial \"Overture di Ballo,\" in honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, and Peter Maxwell Davies's cute but overlong \"Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise,\" in which the wonderfully named bagpiper George MacIlwham made a grand entrance in full Scottish regalia. Whiskey and Cheers To be sure, the rabble had made its presence felt early on. Coordinated cheers were hurled from the floor to the distant upper balconies and back again: \"Anyone for tennis?\" and \"You're upside down!\" stood out. Everyone hummed along on the orchestra's tuning A. The stagehands timed their raising of the piano lid to the crowd's \"Heave ho!\" Miss Te Kanawa, who is from New Zealand, was greeted in Maori; Miss Nikolayeva, in Russian. Balloons popped, flags waved and, when the music got rhythmic or lilting, the Promenaders bobbed or swayed en masse. Above all, everyone sang along, with fervor, starting with A. C. Benson's versification of the big tune from Elgar's \"Pomp and Circumstance\" March No. 1, \"Land of Hope and Glory.\" In the succeeding \"Fantasia on British Sea-Songs,\" a naive pastiche by the Proms' founding conductor, Henry Wood, the crowd stomped its feet in time to the \"Sailor's Hornpipe,\" hummed \"Home, Sweet Home\" and sang out grandly on the choruses of Arne's \"Rule, Britannia!\" For the florid Handelian verses, Miss Te Kanawa, having exchanged her elegant evening gown in favor of a campy outfit of blue skirt with silver stars, big red bow and off-the-shoulder white blouse, pealed forth pleasingly, and the choruses had all the ruddy vigor of a Victorian \"Messiah\" inflation.
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New York Times Company
