Excerpt: "As Proms director for the past six years, Wright, 56, has played a key role in maintaining this tradition, but you wouldn’t know it if you met him off his commuter train at St Pancras Station at 7am, as I did a fortnight ago. Dressed in anorak and scuffed shoes, with a rucksack on his back and earphones plugged in, Wright looks like any other office worker. /... By the time he starts the 25-minute walk from St Pancras to BBC headquarters at Broadcasting House, he has read his emails and scanned the broadsheets on his iPhone, before tuning in to the Breakfast show on Radio 3 – the predominantly classical music station of which he is controller. “It’s a practical way to use time,” he says, stopping at a café to pick up a tub of porridge. “If you work at something that is your hobby and passion, you never leave it behind. ”/ ... A typical Prom concert has 800 scripted camera shots, “each planned, numbered and described in the score, and given on cards to the camera crew,” explains executive producer Francesca Kemp."
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:23:55 +0000
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