{"id":1690,"date":"2010-07-24T19:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2010-07-24T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:42:22","slug":"stormin-norman-lebrecht-livid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/07\/24\/stormin-norman-lebrecht-livid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stormin’ Norman: Lebrecht livid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ouch. A touch of outrage manifests itself in critic Norman Lebrecht’s lastest blogpost over on Slipped Disc<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lebrecht poses a series of eight scathing questions concerning recent events in the nation’s cultural life: \u00a0the fourth concerns\u00a0one summer music festival, which\u00a0is billing itself as ‘Britiain’s first classical music festival’ (anyone heard of the Proms over there ?) and is featuring Katherine Jenkins and Russell Watson. The festival’s website even features a video of Jenkins singing, erm, Bring Me To Life<\/a><\/em> by American rockers Evanescence<\/a> (at least, the one I found by using Google did: Lebrecht seems to avoid potential litigation by neglecting to name the festival directly. Perhaps Google led me to the wrong one…).<\/p>\n

Read the questions for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Double ouch.<\/p>\n