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Proms: Palestinian Protest At Royal Albert Hall Forces BBC To Abandon Live Broadcast [Barbarians!]
Telegraph(UK) ^ | September 01, 2011 | Andrew Hough, and Andy Bloxham

Posted on 09/01/2011 6:48:22 PM PDT by Steelfish

Proms: Palestinian Protest At Royal Albert Hall Forces BBC To Abandon Live Broadcast The BBC was forced to suspend a live Proms broadcast on Radio 3 on Thursday night when a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was disrupted by protests.

By Andrew Hough, and Andy Bloxham 02 Sep 2011

Up to 30 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were ejected from the Royal Albert Hall after attempting to drown out the orchestra. They shouted anti-Israel statements throughout the concert, leading to clashes with members of the audience who wanted to hear the music. Witnesses reported seeing a fight break out.

Different groups of protesters stood up to chant at the start of each of the four pieces of the evening, meaning that fresh people had to be ejected each time. Radio 3 broadcast the first piece, which lasted about seven minutes, including the protests.

When the protesters started again at the start of the second, the broadcast was halted and a recording of a different orchestra playing the same music was played instead. RELATED ARTICLES BBC Proms radio broadcast pulled after Israel protest 01 Sep 2011 The BBC tried to resume the broadcast at the start of the second part of the concert - Prom 62 - but further protests led to it being abandoned. But audience members told The Daily Telegraph the protests did not deter the orchestra, which last played at the Proms in 2003. I t is thought it was the first time Radio 3 had been forced interrupt a broadcast of the summer-long festival of music because of protests. It remained unclear on Thursday night who organised the protest.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alberthall; bbc; palestinianprotest; royalalberthall
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To: tet68

What would that be, one huge battery section?


21 posted on 09/01/2011 7:03:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: MagUSNRET

Fascists understand only one language: FORCE! If a few of them were beaten to pulp this would have sent a message that finally civilized society has had enough and has begun to fight back.


22 posted on 09/01/2011 7:06:16 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Classic Alinsky. By chance were these muzzies ‘community organized’ in south Chicago by a man named Hussein?


23 posted on 09/01/2011 7:08:56 PM PDT by crusader71
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To: Steelfish

AGREED


24 posted on 09/01/2011 7:12:10 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: MagUSNRET

The same tactics as the nazi brown shirts—disrupt everything and prevent any opposing view
from being heard.


25 posted on 09/01/2011 7:17:09 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: SES1066

uh that was the 1972 Munich Olympics. The 1968 Olympics were in Mexico City.


26 posted on 09/01/2011 7:17:46 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Steelfish

Leonard Slatkin Conducts the BBC Orchestra on September 15 2001 in honor of those who lost their lives a few days prior. Visuals from BBC’s ‘Last Night of the Proms’ and ABC’s ‘Report from ground zero’. AUVIEX edit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g

How quickly we forget.


27 posted on 09/01/2011 7:55:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Steelfish

Now they know how many a-holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.


28 posted on 09/01/2011 7:55:49 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: xp38
uh that was the 1972 Munich Olympics.

[Facepalm] It was late, I was tired, no caffeine ... Yada, yada, yada. Thanks for the correction but I hope you share the intention of the point!

29 posted on 09/02/2011 4:35:45 AM PDT by SES1066 (1776 to 2011, 235 years and counting in the GRAND EXPERIMENT!)
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To: SES1066

Yes I agree


30 posted on 09/02/2011 6:35:02 AM PDT by xp38
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