Monday, July 30, 2007

It must ever be that we dwell in our dreaming, and our singing, a little apart...

Just a few links I need to share...

You must read this extremely interesting review of the final concert of the Chester Summer Music Festival. I think you'll feel pleased and proud :-)

In slightly less good musical news, the On An Overgrown Path blog tells us about a really alarming idea called Proms Idol, and the Guardian tells us of ENO's plans for an interactive version of Carmen.

And finally, in non-musical news, Harry Potter fans will find these two interviews with J.K. Rowling VERY interesting: Harry Potter: The Final Chapter and Wild about Harry. Needless to say they are very full of spoilers for book 7! But if you're a fan and you haven't seen this news, you will be excited to discover stuff like what the original last line was (you know how she said for years the last word of the last book would be 'scar' and changed her mind at the last minute?) and lots of information that she could have included in the epilogue and didn't. Also which character she meant to kill and reprieved, and which characters she didn't mean to kill but did! EDIT: And there's even more news in today's interview, and yet more in this webchat. Thanks, as ever, to The Leaky Cauldron for all these updates.

And some very exciting news for Buffy fans (I know there are others apart from me!), who don't expect to get new news these days, seeing as the series ended in 2003... it looks as if Joss Whedon is going to make the long-rumoured Ripper film, which tells the story of Giles before he met Buffy. Whee!

Back to musical news next time, I promise :-)

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