"It’s a total musical extravaganza, a candy box selection of the world’s best loved classics (even the non music lovers among you will probably know most of them). But what makes it a ‘spectacular’ is that the show is accompanied by lasers, lights, can-can dancers and even canon fire in the finale of Tchaikovsky’s wonderful 1812 Overture, with uniformed Napoleonic soldiers standing guard around the area. There will be flag waving and cheering, so it would be fair to say it’s not an evening for classical music purists."
That describes the event remarkably well. The 1812 Overture was pretty sweet, and it's the first time I've seen a live performance of it. And they played Gustav Holst's Mars! Gahhh!
But then they played some uniquely British songs that I wasn't familiar with, and the entire audience waved their little British flags around.
The event was indeed a bit tacky.
Will stands in my way for the duration of the concert.
The word you're looking for is jingoistic. And why does my blog never tell me when your blog updates? It's the devil I tell ya. It's the work of the devil. Also, stop snoring. Actually, it doesn't really bother me.
ReplyDelete"Jingoistic" also has a bit of a negative connotation.
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