Finally - a review! in The Times. It says Shost 2 is "a crazily avant-garde curio, climaxing in a gruesome choral text marking the October Revolution’s 10th anniversary. The Hallé chorus, doomed to sing lines such as “October is happiness in the field and at the work bench” (it sounds better in Russian), were brave and robust."
I suppose it could be worse....
EDIT: And a 5-star review from The Guardian. Which is a fabulous review other than, as has been pointed out below, not mentioning the choir AT ALL. Sheesh. This is a great line, though: "I don't believe that I have ever been so comprehensively bullied by a symphony orchestra before."
Monday, February 06, 2006
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The Guardina reviewer didn't mention the choir at all - perhaps he didn't notice us!
Make that 'Guardian'!!
No, Guardina is highly appropriate. Don't you read Private Eye?
Isn't it the Grauniad? ;o) - I can't believe they didn't mention the choir at all!!!!! - Do you think they just forgot?? - I'd have thought we made slightly more impact..... Still bravely, and robustly, we must go on ... :o)
Yes, but no harm in a variation on a theme of Hislop!
To put the record straight a guardina is an Italian female bodyguard ... honest!
He was probably waiting for the siren...
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