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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 a medley of 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. |
