Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story

9 Aug 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 9 Aug 2019 Next Event

Proms 2019 Prom 30: The Warner Brothers Story

19:30 Fri 9 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall

John Wilson and his orchestra take us back to where it all began in a concert of classic songs and scores from the Warner Brothers studios. The programme includes music by Korngold, Loewe and Steiner, including numbers from My Fair Lady and The Sea Hawk.

Programme

- - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  - The Sea Hawk(5 mins)
- - Harry Warren
  - We're in the money(3 mins)
- - Sigmund Romberg
  - The Desert song(3 mins)
- - Max Steiner
  - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(3 mins)
- - Dimitri Tiomkin
  - The Old Man and the Sea(15 mins)
- - Meredith Willson
  - Seventy-Six Trombones(4 mins)
- - Harold Arlen
  - Blues in the Night
- - Bronislau Kaper
  - Auntie Mame(3 mins)
- - interval
- - Frederick Loewe
  - My Fair Ladyexcerpts
- - Max Steiner
  - Now, Voyagerexcerpts
- - Sammy Fain
  - The Deadwood Stage (from Calamity Jane)(3 mins)(Doris Day tribute)
- - Jule Styne
  - It's Magic(4 mins)
- - Alex North
  - A Streetcar Named Desireexcerpts
- - Frederick Loewe
  - Camelotexcerpts
- - Henry Mancini
  - The Days of Wine and Roses(4 mins)
- - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  - Tomorrow(6 mins)
- - Frederick Loewe
  - I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady)(Encore)
- - John Williams
  - Harry Potter Suite- Harry鈥檚 Wondrous World(5 mins)(Encore)

Performers

Mikaela Bennett
singer
singer
Louise Dearman
singer
singer
Kate Lindsey
singer
singer
Matthew Ford
singer
singer
Maida Vale Singers
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Ten years since their first Proms appearance together, John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra present an evening of sumptuous technicoloured scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.With music from films including The Sea Hawk, The Constant Nymph, Calamity Jane, A Streetcar Named Desire and Harry Potter.

There will be one interval

Approx. end time: 22:00

Broadcast tonight on 麻豆约拍 Four

Broadcast live on 麻豆约拍 Radio 3 and recorded for future broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 2

Image: John-Wilson 漏 Sim Canetty Clarke