Proms 2012: week five in review

Smartphones take centre stage as all the talk is about the right way to listen to music, rather than talking about the music itselfThe epithet "first rate" is reserved, in English, for truly exceptional occurrences. Why is it then that "second rate", which logically should be a term of qualified praise, is so derogatory?Whatever the answer to this conundrum, "second rate" is not a description Elgarians like to see applied to the master's works, even with works that few would argue are among the ...

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