Saturday 6 August 2016

On joy at the Proms last night

This evening, I watched the recorded programme of last night's performance, by a young Finnish violinist, of Tchaikovsky's violin Concerto.
What a joy that was, only to be followed by the funniest encore I've ever seen. Not only did he explain, make jokes about and play a Finnish folk song but he duetted with the leader of the orchestra, SANG the words, then taught and conducted the whole audience in the chorus, which was, of course, in Finnish.
An absolute star; he made me laugh out loud and filled me with the joy of his delight in music - of all sorts!!


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