Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra in a Prom celebrating Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen, including works by Walton and Bernstein.
Live at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart celebrate music from stage and screen inspired by Shakespeare's plays, including Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, based on Romeo and Juliet, and selections from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and Richard Rodgers's The Boys from Syracuse.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Penny Gore.
Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude to Richard III
Finzi: Suite from Love's Labour's Lost
Sullivan: Overture to Act IV of The Tempest, Op 1
Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare
Joby Talbot: "Springtime Dance" from The Winter's Tale
8.20pm INTERVAL
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington looks at the depiction of actors and acting as a metaphor in Shakespeare's plays. Dr Sarah Dillon hosts the recording with an audience at Imperial College Union.
8.40pm
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
The Bard on Broadway
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate - Another Openin', Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the Life that Late I Led?; So In Love
Rodgers/Hart: The Boys from Syracuse - Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can't Be Love
Porter: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (Kiss Me, Kate)
Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart
This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare's characters as reflected on stage and screen - with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.
PROMS EXTRA: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
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Proms interval talk: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Duration: 20:55
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William Walton
Richard III Suite (arr. Muir Mathieson)
Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Gerald Finzi
Love’s Labour’s Lost – suite
Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Arthur Sullivan
The Tempest – Overture to Act 4
Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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William Walton
As You Like It – a poem for orchestra after Shakespeare
Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Joby Talbot
Springtime Dance from The Winter's Tale
Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Performer: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Performer: Keith Lockhart. -
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Cole Porter
Kiss Me Kate (Songs)
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Richard Rodgers
The Boys from Syracuse (Songs)
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Cole Porter
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart. -
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Soshanah Sievers
Les nuances de la lumiere
Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. -
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No 2
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
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c. 10.00pm: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ PROMS INSPIRE - YOUNG COMPOSERS' CONCERT
The annual Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition for 12-18 year olds provides what most composers only dream of: the chance to haveΜύtheir music performed by professional musicians at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms and broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3. Not only this - winners also receive a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commission for a high-profile performance and are mentored throughout the process by a professional composer.
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On Monday 15th August 2016 the Aurora Orchestra gave a concert in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London featuring the six winning pieces from this year's competition.ΜύBetween now and Monday 22nd August there's a chance to hear these winning pieces and tonight it'sΜύthe turn ofΜύShoshanah SieversΜύandΜύher piece entitled Les nuances de la lumiere.
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
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| Performer | Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra |
Broadcast
- Thu 18 Aug 2016 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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