Name: The Proms: Music festival from home - News Review
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Hello and welcome to news of You once again from our lock down home temporary studios.

I'm in one part of London and Catherine is on the other side.

And today's story is about a music festival that will go ahead despite coronavirus.

Okay, well, that sounds like good news to May.

Let's find out some more from this BBC news report.

The BBC Problems has unveiled a new program to replace the original schedule, which was scrapped because of the pandemic.

The event will open in July with a virtual concert inspired by Beethoven, recorded by 350 musicians in their own homes.

There will be live performances at the Royal Albert Hall in the final fortnight of the season, culminating in the traditional last night in September.

Yes, so whilst most music festivals around the world have bean canceled due to coronavirus, the largest classical music festival in the world known as the BBC, Prom's will go ahead not quite as planned because they're going to start with online concert and they will finished the season, which lasts about two months, with a really concert in a riel concert hall Okay.

Well, you have been looking around at the world's media at how this story is being reported.

You've picked out three useful words and expressions.

Unthinkable Virtual mash up on unthinkable.

So let's hear your first headline, please.

Virtual, Most certainly we're starting right here in London with the evening standard.

The headline BBC prom's 2020 toe hold Virtual First night, Beethoven Tribute on live last night celebrations Virtual appearing via the Internet.

L Now the pronunciation of this word is really, really interesting.

There is almost no resemblance to the way it appears in spelling.

So the first thing is that I is pronounced in virtual.

Then you've got the rt, which is pronounced then the U is pronounced you.

Yes, an interesting word because there is virtually no similarity between this spelling and the pronunciation.

You said there is virtually no similarity.

Almost no There is almost no similarity between the pronunciation and the spelling of the word virtually now, almost is a really good clue to the way that we're using virtually or virtual in this headline.

But in terms of this kind of technology sense, when we talk about virtual reality, we're saying that something is almost rial.

So if you think about things like computer games, where you have a character, you go into a world there are You can move around it, meet other characters.

Or at least that's what the developers tell you.

It's almost riel, so something's virtual online.

It's almost riel, and at the moment we're doing lots of things.

For example, last night I had some virtual drinks with some friends of mine virtual because obviously we're not able to be in the same place.

So you hear people talking about virtual pub nights at the moment in the UK yes, lots of things which aren't quite real, but you do them on the computer and they're almost riel and we do them using technology.

Okay, well, we're virtually done with this explanation.

The headline BBC Prom's reveals plans for mashup First night on live Last night Mash up media product, which combines clips and music from a number of sources.

Yes, mush up two words yet first word M A S h the second word up, and they're joined together with a hyphen.

That little line that joins words often you'll see it written just as all word without a hyphen mush up.

Yeah, OK, now we're a little bit confused here, as I often am.

I'm thinking about potatoes that you boil, and then you add butter and a drop of milk, and you mash them up to make mashed potatoes.

I love mashed potatoes, and it's where you get five or six or plenty of potatoes, all single potatoes.

But then when you boil them and you mix them together and you use a kind of metal tool called a masher to hit them with, and then they will become one.

They're all mixed up together and ill on.

Eso If you get different pieces of media, you might get a bit of audio from one source and a bit of visual material from another source and maybe some video and some photographs and a bit of extra voice work.

And you put them all together to make a new product that's called a mash up, where you get different pieces of media, makes them together, make something else.

There's lots of mash ups you can see on the Internet on their Neil.

Yeah, you could see something as simple as two famous people whose faces have been kind of merged together.

That's the kind of very simple image mash up.

But you also get you also get videos and music from a variety of sources all put together.

Yes, I like the one where you've got Laurel and Hardy, that old black and white comedy characters, and they're dancing to modern music that I think there was a really clever mash ups are good fun.

What would you mash up if you could do BBC looting English?

What would your two products orm or that you put together?

Well, it would definitely have to be news review and English for cats.

Well, I think the bigger, better presenter than you.

But a couple of kitty cats instead of us news what could be called CAT reviews?

News news NEWS NEWS REVIEW News review Let's move on.

Okay, let's have a summary of that, please.

If you like stories about music and music festivals, we have another one for you, don't we, Catherine?

Just a few weeks ago, we brought you a story about how most of the world's music festivals are being canceled at the moment.

So if you'd like to see that, just click the link in the description and you'll go straight to the program.

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