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Clive Anderson takes viewers on a fascinating, surprising and thrilling journey into the heart of music-making as eight famous amateur conductors, each armed with a passion for classical music, go head to head in the battle of the batons.
Over six gruelling weeks, they compete for the chance to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in front of a live audience of 30,000 at this year's London BBC Proms In The Park event. The concert, which is held in Hyde Park, is part of the world-famous Last Night Of The Proms celebrations and takes place on Saturday 13 September.
The series features actors Jane Asher and David Soul, drum 'n' bass star Goldie, Blur bassist Alex James, broadcasters Katie Derham and Peter Snow, and comedians Sue Perkins and Bradley Walsh, who all compete to become the ultimate Maestro.
In the first programme, the students attend a week-long "Baton Training Camp", where they must face an orchestra for the first time. The students attempt to conduct a range of pieces including Prokofiev's Dance Of The Knights and Greig's In The Hall Of The Mountain King.
On the final day of Baton Camp, all the students conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in front of a panel of expert judges, led by Sir Roger Norrington – conductor of this year's Last Night Of The Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall – and including composer and cellist Zoë Martlew, conductor Simone Young and double bassist Dominic Seldis. The Orchestra then votes one of the students out of the competition for good.
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