Prom 48: Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

Time: 6.30pm - c8.45pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £6-£27.50 price code A or Prom for £5

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Gustavo Dudamel, who made a thrilling Proms debut in 2005 when he took over a concert at short notice, returns with his own orchestra, which has been a miraculous training ground for young Venezuelan musicians. In his intensely personal Tenth Symphony Shostakovich created a horn-call enshrining the young Azerbaijani student with whom he was infatuated. The forbidden love of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet received an updated setting, and a Puerto-Rican twist, in Bernstein's West Side Story, the suite from which leads tonight to a sequence of Latin American works.

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 10 in E minor (45 mins)

Interval

Bernstein

West Side Story - Symphonic Dances (22 mins)

Moncayo

Huapango (8 mins)

Márquez

Danzón No. 2 (9.5 mins)

Ginastera

Estancia - Suite (12 mins)

Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel conductor

Please note that the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble, drawn from the ranks of the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, are now performing in Prom 47 on Saturday 18 August at 10.15pm

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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