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 Friday Night is Music Night
Henley Festival
Friday 10 July, 8.45pm
BBC Concert Orchestra
Sir Michael Parkinson
John Barrowman
Cantabile
Sir Michael Parkinson presents Pure Gold from the Silver Screen.
Friday Night is Movie Night with John Barrowman and Cantabile.
The UK's most respected chat show host presents an evening celebrating pure gold from the silver screen with a platinum cast. 'The man who's met everyone', Sir Michael Parkinson, is joined by leading West End star, actor and popular television personality John Barrowman and, bringing some great harmonies and humour to the Floating Stage, the vocal quartet Cantabile - The London Quartet.
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 Friday Night Is Music Night
Colosseum, Watford
Friday 17 July, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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 Discovering Music: The Horn in Romantic Music
Colosseum, Watford
Tuesday 21 July, 7pm
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor & presenter
This programme examines the Germanic romantic horn in solo and orchestral mode. Schumann's Konzertstück is an extraordinary work for the instrument and can be heard in the context of the orchestral solo writing of its time. Michael Thompson and the BBCCO horn section join forces to demonstrate the instrument's increasing virtuosity.
Click here for more information and to book tickets or call 0370 901 1227.
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Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 24 July, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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 Last Night of the Welsh Proms Cardiff
St David's Hall, Cardiff
Saturday 25 July, 7.30pm
Owain Arwel Hughes CBE conductor
David Childs euphonium
BBC Concert Orchestra
Rossini Thieving Magpie - Overture
Eric Coates Elizabeth of Glamis (The Queen Mother)
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (excerpts)
Karl Jenkins Concerto for Euphonium and orchestra - World Premiere
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Gareth Wood Fantasy on Welsh Songs
Unfurl those banners and flags and dust down your party hat for an evening of pure fun and delight. Your host at this great party will be Owain Arwel Hughes who will be whipping up the entertainments and diversions with classics by Rossini and Tchaikovsky alongside a brand new Concerto by Karl Jenkins. And there’s a chance to add your own voice to the festivities in Last Night of the Welsh Proms favourites by Elgar, alongside other traditional Welsh tunes.
Tickets: £5.50 - £24.50
Call 029 2087 8444 or click here to book online. |
 BBC Proms 2009
Evolution! A Darwin-inspired extravaganza for kids
Royal Albert Hall
Saturday 1 August & Sunday 2 August, 11am
BBC Concert Orchestra
London Philharmonic Choir
Charles Hazlewood conductor
Barney Harwood presenter
Gemma Hunt presenter
with special guest Sir David Attenborough
CBBC presenters Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt unleash a natural selection of creatures in this childfriendly Prom inspired by the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
Conductor Charles Hazlewood leads us from prehistoric Earth to outer space in John Williams's soundtracks to Jurassic Park and Star Wars – and we uncover the bird kingdom (with Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring) and insect life (in Arvo Pärt's If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper). Britten's 'Storm' interlude from his opera Peter Grimes represents the primal elements before the arrival of animals, while Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man anticipates the collective human spirit.
Plus, there's a new beginning, as DJ and drum-and-bass producer Goldie (runner-up of last year's BBC Two Maestro competition) reveals a specially written, Darwin-inspired work. His first ever for a classical orchestra.
Tickets: all seats £12 (under-16s £6)
For telephone bookins call 0845 401 5040* or click here to book online.
*Calls cost up to 4p/min from a BT landline (plus a one-off connection charge of up to 8p). Charges from mobiles and other networks may be considerably higher.
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Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Tuesday 4 August, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra |
Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 7 August, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra
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BBC Proms 2009
Sullivan Patience
Royal Albert Hall
Tuesday 11 August, 7.30pm
Chorus of English National Opera
BBC Concert Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
Martin Duncan director
Sullivan Patience (115 mins) (semi-staged)
Following his earlier appearance this season conducting the music of Delius, Elgar and Holst (Prom 12), Sir Charles Mackerras returns as one of our greatest living exponents of G&S and, in the wake of conducting HMS Pinafore in 2005, he now presides over a specially created semi-staging of the 1881 operetta in which Gilbert took a swipe at the then fashionable Aesthetic movement and its artistic figurehead, Oscar Wilde.
Rebecca Bottone Patience
Felicity Palmer Lady Jane
Pamela Helen Stephen Lady Angela
Elena Xanthoudakis Lady Ella
Sophie Louise Dann Lady Saphir
Simon Butteriss Reginald Bunthorne
Toby Stafford-Allen Archibald Grosvenor
Donald Maxwell Colonel Calverley
Graeme Danby Major Murgatroyd
Bonaventura Bottone Lt. Duke of Dunstable
Tickets
£8 - £44 price band B or Prom for £5
For telephone bookins call 0845 401 5040* or click here to book online.
*Calls cost up to 4p/min from a BT landline (plus a one-off connection charge of up to 8p). Charges from mobiles and other networks may be considerably higher.
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Friday Night Is Music Night
Colosseum, Watford
Friday 14 August, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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 BBC Proms In The Park
Hyde Park, London
Saturday 12 September
Gates open 4.00pm, Entertainment from 5.30pm
Martin Yates conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra
Royal Choral Society
Katherine Jenkins mezzo-soprano
Sir Terry Wogan presenter
Join in the Last Night celebrations in Hyde Park with Sir Terry Wogan and a host of internationally acclaimed stars, including Katherine Jenkins, accompanied by Proms in the Park favourites the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Martin Yates.
The party gets under way with BBC Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce, as well as highlights from One Night of Queen with Gary Mullen and The Works.
Tickets
£25.00 (under-3s free)
Family and Friends ticket offer: buy 7 tickets and get the 8th free.
Online
From the Royal Albert Hall (£2.75 transaction fee applies) or from See Tickets (£2.00 transaction fee applies).
By Phone
from the Royal Albert Hall on 0845 401 5040* (9.00am – 9.00pm, £2.75 transaction fee)or from See Tickets on 0844 412 4630* (£2.00 transaction fee)
In Person
at the Royal Albert Hall (Door 12, 9.00am– 9.00pm, no transaction fee)
*Calls cost up to 5p per minute (0844 numbers) and 4p per minute (0845 numbers) from a BT landline (plus a one-off connection charge of up to 8p). Charges from mobiles and other networks may be considerably higher.
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Thank You For The Music:
A Celebration Of The Music Of ABBA
Hyde Park, London
Sunday 13 September, 6.30pm
Benny and Björn celebrate their countless hits at this special BBC Radio 2 event with the
BBC Concert Orchestra and special guests
Radio 2 join forces with songwriters, producers and former members of the world renowned Swedish pop group Abba, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, to host ‘Thank You For The Music... A Celebration Of The Music Of Abba’ in London’s Hyde Park on Sunday 13 September.
The concert will include exclusive live performances from an array of stars of some of Benny and Bjorn’s most famous songs from their days as of one of the world’s greatest pop bands, to music from their recent offerings in musical theatre and folk.
Ticket Details
Tickets £25.00 (plus £1.25 admin fee)
Family & Friends ticket offer: Buy 7 tickets and get the 8th free.
Bookings are subject to a £2.00 transaction fee.
Buy Tickets:
By phone: 0844 412 4630*
*Calls cost up to 5p per minute from a BT landline (plus a one-off connection charge of up to 8p).
Calls from other mobiles will cost more.
Buy tickets online at www.seetickets.com |
Friday Night Is Music Night
The Mermaid
Friday 18 September, 7pm
For more than 50 years Friday Night has been Music Night on BBC Radio 2, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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 Nature's Great Events
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough
Colston Hall Bristol
Tuesday 22 September, 7.30pm
William Goodchild conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra
Experience the spectacular footage from BBC Natural History's award-winning Nature's Great Events with Ben Salisbury and Barnaby Taylor's award winning score from the series performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by William Goodchild in this completely unique event. See and hear the series come to life!
For tickets call 0117 922 3686 or click here to book online. |
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