bogarde73 wrote on Jul 22
nd, 2015 at 3:13pm:
Sprint, it's not muzak. It's a variety of good music played well by excellent musicians.
Andre Rieu is a showman who likes to combine Strauss with horseplay and novelty acts, and that's why he's regarded as a cheap populist and a pariah amongst 'serious' Strauss lovers.
Over the years I've recorded most of his concerts onto DVD for my elderly widowed Dutch neighbour.
Nowadays I only concentrate on his annual concerts at Maastricht. If I was living in the UK I would have been making an annual pilgrimage to Maastricht to soak up the music and wallow in the atmosphere of several thousand people from all over Europe enjoying his concerts.
That's the problem with living at the
arse-end of the world (Paul Keating, 1990) - we're so far away from the smörgåsbord of cultural activity across the length and breadth of Britain and continental Europe.
It's like we're living on
The Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston, 1968) and have to receive everything second-hand through the internet.