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About Ian Macmillan

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    Bishop's Stortford
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    Squadron Associations connected with my years as a RAF Navigator; choral singing; and ballet and dance after meeting the lady, now my wife, who had been a dancer with the Royal Ballet's Touring Company, and who still teaches and examines in the discipline. (Edited to say that in mid-2014 she resigned from examining after some 40+ years.)

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  1. Ian Macmillan
    It appears that I'm from the 'Silent Generation,' and Jane S asks if the term is more used in the US than in the UK. Going on the definition at the link, above, I'm sure it must be - it defines it around lack of reaction to Senator McCarthy in the early 1950s. Personally, I was about 12 when he was at his most active when, living on the outskirts of Glasgow, I doubt there was much that I could have done to restrain him. Back to Audience Behaviour, I guess.
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    'Gen Z' (and Gen 'X' since I understand that term is also au courant) - who defines such things, and on what authority? How are they delineated? And if I'm right, there's also 'Boomers,' a term referring to those born in the immediate post-WW2 years. And for those of us born during or before WW2, is there another handy alphabetic term? Gen A? Where does history start in all of this? Feel free to ignore these deviant off-topic enquiries. And a good day to one and all.
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    Alison: I stand ready to be corrected but I'm certain that the term Lauren used was "Principal Guest Artist," and I agree that there was no explanation given for that new status.
  4. Ian Macmillan
    I've strayed in here, somewhat curious about the title. So there's at least one school still handing out lines as a punishment? Back in the late 50s, in Glasgow, lines were often to write out a speech from whatever Shakespeare play we were studying at the time - just the thing to encourage an interest in matters theatrical!
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    One of my daughters, not normally a dance fan, saw the show in Oxford on Wednesday evening - and thoroughly enjoyed it. "Very fast moving and felt like I was watching Peaky Blinders ..... a band that played the classic PB score - think heavy rock - dancers were excellent." And , like Fiona, it won a "Definitely recommend" from her. (I have to admit that I didn't see any of the TV series.)
  6. Ian Macmillan
    The relay was fine where we were. A good show - Miss Hayward is divine in such roles. An enjoyable chat between Mmes Cuthbertson and Yanowsky during the second interval. (And was that really Steven McCrae as Mad Hatter? I wasn't able to recognise him, something that's not been a trouble before.)
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    Rob: Surely not! That's spoilt my day. 😪
  8. Ian Macmillan
    True enough - yet why was the ballet programme listed in all of the papers, presumably from a schedule provided by Sky?
  9. Ian Macmillan
    And I fear it was/is! And Anne, it's as clunky as hell. Dreadful - particularly as it followed a Rodgers and Hammerstein Gala in London recently that looked like it had been a great show when we got to it.
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    The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 was well through what may have been the same interview when my Radio Alarm came on at 7.45 am.
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    Pardon if I interrupt the flow, but the photo accompanying the Review in today's Times has Ms Cuthbertson in one of the Red Queen's imperious poses - all making me think how time has passed since one of the first nights in 2011 when Alice was the first character created on her and Mme Yanowsky gave us the grandiloquent Red Queen. And when I happened to be enjoying it all in SCS alongside our late colleague and Forum co-founder, John Mallinson. And now, back to 2024 .......
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    During my time in Brussels some years back, I recall it was not uncommon to hear certain Bruxellois start a sentence in Flemish and end it in French, or vice versa!
  13. Ian Macmillan
    The Requiem has just been shown on BBC4 again this evening, so that may extend its iPlayer life. It's quite a vision, I must say.
  14. Ian Macmillan
    Yet more obituaries in this morning's Links. Whilst accepting that the present team casts its net more widely than in my time, I can't think of another dancer's death in the 15 years or so that I was doing Links that has been more widely reported than that of Miss DePrince. It even featured on the BBC 1 News some nights back, something that must be exceedingly rare indeed. Requiescat in pace.
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    Sim, so you were pretty much born to run BcForum - a touching and rather wonderful story. That's quite a keepsake you have now, "From Maya to Maya."
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