Philharmonia orchestra prom

Swam 30. To Bromley library to get scores - no sign of the Vaughan Williams symphony No. 4 there or at Wandsworth libraries! Feeling withdrawal now Olympics are over! Roll on the paras! We have £250 worth of tickets and Dennis now has ticket for the closing ceremony as well. He enjoyed the women's volleyball final. Changed to a scart connection on lounge TV and solved the lines on the screen problem at last! Pre prom discussion with Olga Neuwirth told us little -  she obsessed about memory and the brain it seems. The 2 pieces we heard were really odd. 2 out of tune violins and a wooden box which cost £75 to hire. Piano, flute, viola and cello and so much banging and scraping the cellist lost his bow at one point. Scottish bassoonist who proms made his page turner debut on Radio 3. Hoffnung would have sent it up. The end of the piece Marsyas about the artist dying in water was quite pleasant. But at the concert we suffered a viola concerto which was tuneless, no rhythm, just banging and crashing - horrid. We need a gallery booing group. Philharmonia on great form for Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet suite 1 (interesting tuba in love scene!) and Bartok concerto for orchestra conducted by Susanna Malkki. We missed a bus as I was cheering instead of leaving - still home in an hour in time for the Olympics lookback programme. It has been the greatest games ever!