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Johannes Wildner
Viennese Gala
Chichester Festival Theatre
Thursday 12 November, 7.30pm




 
Johannes Wildner conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra

The Music of the Strauss Family
Chichester Festival Theatre welcome back the BBC Concert Orchestra to its regional home in the south for the sixth year running.

Johann Strauss, The Waltz King, is an unmatched composer of light music with over 500 waltzes and polkas to his name; his brother, Joseph, joined the family tradition of dance music after initially training as an engineer and created many unforgettable masterpieces.

Under the baton of Johannes Wildner, no stranger to Vienna’s musical traditions, this concert will have you waltzing in the aisles.

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Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 13 November, 7.30pm





BBC Concert Orchestra
Larry Blank
conductor

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

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Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 20 November, 7.30pm





BBC Concert Orchestra

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

Click here to book tickets online or call 0370 901 1227
Friday Night Is Music Night
Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Saturday 21 November, 7.30pm


 
 

Barry Wordsworth conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night  comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

Click here to book tickets online or call 020 8688 9291.
Friday Night Is Music Night
Colosseum, Watford
Friday 27 November, 7.30pm





BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates
conductor

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

Click here to book tickets online or call 0370 901 1227
Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 4 December, 7.30pm





Katherine Jenkins
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anthony Inglis 
conductor

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

Click here to book tickets online or call 0370 901 1227
Discovering Music: Milhaud & Poulenc
Watford Colosseum
Wednesday 9 December, 7pm





BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood
conductor

Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58
Poulenc Les biches - suite

A ballet double bill from the playboy and bad boy of French music. Inspired by the sounds of Brazil, Le boeuf was originally to have been the score of a silent Charlie Chaplin film. Its transformation to the stage rocked the Establishment and catapulted Milhaud to stardom. The setting is a fictional American bar frequented by a number of characters, including a bookmaker, a dwarf, a boxer, a cross-dressing woman and a policeman. Commissioned by Sergey Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, Les biches pushed Poulenc into fashionable circles when he was just 24. He described the work as a ‘contemporary drawing room party suffused with an atmosphere of wantonness, which you sense if you are corrupted, but of which an innocent-minded girl would not be conscious’.

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Tickets are free and are available from six weeks in advance of the concert date. UK-wide rate charged at no more than 01/02 geographic numbers: calls maybe recorded for training.
Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra at the O2 Arena
Friday 11 December 2009, 8pm




Bill Bailey
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anne Dudley
conductor

Join Bill Bailey at The O2 for his musical, comedy extravaganza, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra. Bill will be performing the show for one night only on Friday 11 December 2009.

The unique show will provide fans with a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Bill’s surreal comic and musical imagination at its best as he is let loose to perform alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by one of the UK’s most celebrated composers and arrangers, Anne Dudley.

Tickets are on sale now and are priced from £40 to £55

Click here to book tickets online or call 0844 856 0202
Sports Personality of the Year 2009
Sheffield Arena
Sunday 13 December 2009, 7pm




BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Koch
conductor

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Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 18 December, 7.30pm





BBC Concert Orchestra

Friday Night has, in fact, been Music Night for half a century - first of all on the Light Programme and then on BBC Radio 2 - making it the world's longest-running 'live music' programme on radio. For the first time in 14 years Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Fairfield, giving you the opportunity to be a member of the live audience at a recording of the show. There will be a guarantee of music for everybody, with BBC Radio 2 presenter and special guest artists to be announced. Plus some music only to be heard by the audience at the live show.

Click here to book tickets online or call 0370 901 1227
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