http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/ St. Albans Nostalgia Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:42:03 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7098 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7098 oh, is that right? Knew I'd seen it somewhere! Lindsay In a message dated 09/11/2009 17:40:24 GMT Standard Time, oldalbanian@... writes: I think the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:39:30 GMT Joan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7097 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7097 I think the Field Gun Competition was contested by teams from the Royal Navy at the Royal Tournament before its demise. Joan. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:17:54 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7096 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7096 I don't think the service at the Cenotaph has changed at all in all the years I have watched it! Yes I remember Ralph Reader and the community singing, and the Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:13:22 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7095 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7095 Looking at the types of singers or musicians involved. The audiance at the Royal Albert Hall would mainly be Radio 2 listeners so the singers and musicians on Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:08:12 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7094 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7094 I think we can agree on the fact that the Albert Hall part would be deemed appropriate to the ocassion. If it were to change so radically i think the Royal Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:20:14 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7093 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7093 I agree that it must move with the times and reflect the present day interests of service-people, and it must be remembered that within 20 years perhaps there Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:52 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7092 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7092 Lesley Garrett, and singers of that type would hae done on ocassions like that. Someone who most of the audiance would approve of. But making sure the "brass Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:10:50 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7091 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7091 I agree with Joan on this one. If they can "move with the times" but not too much. Make it a happy medium between contemporary singers like Jamie Callum. Or Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:24:56 GMT Joan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7090 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7090 No it didn't come across that way for me. I thought that the more modern material in it was tasteful and there was still plenty of pageantry. Joan. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:28:06 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7089 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7089 but doesn't the Festival seem more like a pop concert today? Lindsay In a message dated 08/11/2009 19:03:26 GMT Standard Time, oldalbanian@... writes: It Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:03:06 GMT Joan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7088 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7088 It would have been nice if the veterans in the photo had been named. The programme from the Royal Albert Hall, shown on BBC1 last night, was so good, as it Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:13:50 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7087 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7087 oh yes, Nimrod gets me every time. Just finished watching the programme from the Cenotaph. Lindsay In a message dated 08/11/2009 12:10:54 GMT Standard Time, Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:10:46 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7086 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7086 When the band plays "Nimrod" by Edward Elgar at the Cenotaph. I don't know about you but a tingle seems to go up my spine. I have been known to get emmotional Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:01:36 GMT derekroft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7085 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7085 We will remember them Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:34:00 GMT fidesnemo2003@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7084 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stalbansnostalgia/message/7084 _Click here: The Herts Advertiser - St Albans veterans prepare to remember fallen comrades_