Summary
IT WAS flag day at the Symphony Hall on Tuesday, with a near- capacity audience excitedly showing their colours at this joyful concert. Hundreds of Union Jack flags were waved after the interval when the London Concert Orchestra played such classics as The Dam Busters March, Jerusalem, Rule, Britannia and Pomp and Circumstance March No 1. If anyone entered the hall suffering from economic depression, they must have left feeling uplifted after this remarkable display of pride in Britain... past and present.
It was two for one night. Buy a pounds 3 programme and get two free paper Union Jack flags. Business was brisk, but many people - including a surprising number of children - had taken their own flags and even bunting. Vocalists Philip O'Brien (tenor) and Simon Thorpe (baritone) were draped in red, white and blue for the display of loyalty.See the full content of this document
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