Showing posts with label West Road Concert Hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Road Concert Hall. Show all posts

Sunday 29 April 2012

How to bluff your way as a concert-goer: Lesson 1

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2012
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


29 April

By way, first of all, of credentials - we will be naughty, and skip the learning outcomes* - let me say this:

I consider it sufficient basis on which to offer this bluffer's guide that, when shamelessly seeking an autograph from a both attractive and highly skilled singer last night, I should be told not only that I had been noticed in the audience (why wouldn't I be!), but also that my engagement with following the performance gave rise to the assumption) that I knew the repertoire (when I had never heard it before)


You justly retort (quoting God knows whom) Self-praise is no recommendation



To be continued



End-notes

* Not necessarily an indication that there is nothing to be learnt - or, at any rate, no hope of learning it...