Proms 2019
Proms 2019 Calendar
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Thu 29 Aug 2019
- 17:15Imperial College Union
Kate Kennedy and Jordan Kistler introduce Elgar’s The Music Makers.
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- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Elgar’s great choral work, The Music Makers, is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer’s best-loved pieces. Vaughan Williams’s luminous ‘Tallis’ Fantasia and Hugh Wood’s Comus complete the programme.
Elgar’s great choral work, The Music Makers, is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer’s best-loved pieces. Vaughan Williams’s luminous ‘Tallis’ Fantasia and Hugh Wood’s Comus complete the programme.
Programme
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis(16 mins)
- Scenes from Comus(28 mins)
- interval
- The Music Makers(38 mins)
Performers
- Stacey Tappansoprano
- Dame Sarah Connollymezzo-soprano
- Anthony Gregorytenor
- Sir Andrew Davisconductor
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Jazz, showbiz and spirituality come together in Duke Ellington’s spectacular Sacred Concerts, which spawned three acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Drawing on all three, the Proms presents an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle.
Jazz, showbiz and spirituality come together in Duke Ellington’s spectacular Sacred Concerts, which spawned three acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Drawing on all three, the Proms presents an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle.
Programme
- In The Beginning God(10 mins)
- Something 'Bout Believing(9 mins)
- The Lord's Prayer(3 mins)
- Praise God and Dance(6 mins)
- My Love(7 mins)
- Ain't but the One(3 mins)
- Father Forgive(4 mins)
- Freedom(11 mins)
- Heritage (AKA My Mother, My Father, and Love)(3 mins)
- Tell Me It's The Truth(3 mins)
- Heaven(5 mins)
- Come Sunday(4 mins)
- David Danced(7 mins)
Performers
- Monty Alexanderpiano
- Annette Walkertap dancer
- Carleen Anderson and the UK Vocal Assembly
- Nu Civilisation Orchestra
- Peter Edwardsconductor
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