Proms 2009

BBCのプロムスの今年のプログラムが公開された。8月下旬〜9月で樹になるプログラムは、以下。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2009/

■Prom 53: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
* Date Tuesday 25 August 2009
* Time 7.00pm - c9.15pm

* Purcell Abdelazar - suite (9 mins)
* Handel
* Xerxes - 'Ombra mai fù' (4 mins)
* Alcina - 'Ah, mio cor!' (10 mins)
* Water Music - Suite No.2 in D major (12 mins)
* Haydn Scena di Berenice (13 mins)

* Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 in A minor, 'Scottish' (38 mins)

* Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
* Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
* Sir Roger Norrington conductor

■Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
* Date Saturday 29 August 2009
* Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm

* Schubert Rosamunde - Overture (10 mins)
* Schubert/Osvaldo Golijov She Was Here (UK premiere) (14 mins)

* Mahler Symphony No.4 in G major (60 mins)

* Dawn Upshaw soprano
* Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
* David Zinman conductor

■Prom 60: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
* Date Sunday 30 August 2009
* Time 7.30pm - c9.35pm

* Vivier Orion (UK premiere) (13 mins)
* Ravel Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)

* Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1 in D flat major (15 mins)
* Musorgsky, orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition (30 mins)

* Martha Argerich piano
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
* Charles Dutoit conductor

■Prom 61: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
* Date Monday 31 August 2009
* Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm

* Sibelius Symphony No.1 in E minor (40 mins)

* Duparc
* L'invitation au voyage (5 mins)
* Extase (orch. Pierre de Breville) (4 mins)
* Le manoir de Rosemonde (3 mins)
* Chanson triste (4 mins)
* Phidylé (5 mins)

* Ravel Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No.2 (18 mins)

* Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
* Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
* Mariss Jansons conductor

■Prom 62: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
* Date Tuesday 1 September 2009
* Time7.30pm - c9.30pm

* Haydn Symphony No.100 in G major, 'Military' (25 mins)
* interval
* Shostakovich Symphony No.10 in E minor (55 mins)

* Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
* Mariss Jansons conductor

■Prom 70: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
* Date Tuesday 8 September 2009
* Time 7.00pm - c8.45pm

* Mendelssohn Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave') (10 mins)
* Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Violin Concerto No.2 (UK premiere) (c20 mins)

* Sibelius Symphony No.5 in E flat major* (32 mins)

* Daniel Hope violin
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
* Sir Peter Maxwell Davies conductor
* Garry Walker conductor*

■Prom 71: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
* Date Tuesday 8 September 2009
* Time 10.00pm - c11.15pm

* Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
* Westerlings (15 mins)
* Solstice of Light (50 mins)

* Ed Lyon tenor
* David Goode organ
* BBC Singers
* David Hill conductor

■Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
* Date Thursday 10 September 2009
* Time 7.30pm - c9.30pm

* Haydn Symphony No.97 in C major (25 mins)

* Schubert Symphony No.9 in C major, 'Great' (60 mins)

* Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
* Nikolaus Harnoncourt conductor

■Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
* Date Friday 11 September 2009
* Time 6.30pm - c8.45pm

* R Strauss Don Quixote (42 mins)

* Brahms Symphony No.4 in E minor (45 mins)

* Christian Frohn viola
* Tamás Varga cello
* Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
* Zubin Mehta conductor

二次大戦時の開戦の折、会議参加者のほとんどが開戦に反対だったにもかかわらず、開戦へと踏み切ってしまったものは、その場の「空気」だったとか、いろいろなことが言われている。

さて昨晩の某打ち合わせ。実は内心でほとんどの人が反対意見だったにもかかわらず、権威者を立てて、そのまま決議が通っていたということが判明して、しかもそれに自分も同様に関わっていたことに愕然とする。

明確にすべきことは、気がついた時点で明確にしておかないと、後で取り返しのつかないことになると改めて肝に銘じる。