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An Evening with John Barry featuring The Ten Tenors

John Barry took his place at the podium to rapturous applause and began the evening by conducting the English Chamber Orchestra with ‘Goldfinger’. He then without any explanation left the stage to be replaced by another conductor who took over the baton to lead the orchestra through Barry favourites including ‘Mary Queen of Scots’, ‘The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair’, ‘All Time High’, ‘Body Heat’ (including a cracking sax player), ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Walkabout’, and concluded this section of the concert with a nicely ‘beefed up’ version of the ‘Bond Suite’ that Barry fans have been accustomed to hearing in a much slower arrangement for the last 35 years.

After the interval John Barry returned to the stage, but only to introduce the Australian ‘singing sensations’, The Ten Tenors. “I think you’re going to like them!” he said, and then left the stage to return only once more during the concert for the tenors’ ‘rendition’ of ‘We Have All The Time In The World’.

An evening with John Barry? Well not quite. Barry’s health may have played a major part in him not conducting the whole concert. However, any small chance to see the maestro at work was better than not at all.

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