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SATURDAY 9 AUGUST
Print this page2.00pm - 4.00pm: Proms Family Orchestra The Family Orchestra plays jazz!
Prom 31: BBC Concert Orchestra
- Date Saturday 9 August 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Two and BBC HD. Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Jazz infuses tonight's programme, with Gershwin's gift for melody opening and closing the evening.
And there are new pieces by Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock and Jason Yarde.
- Gershwin Strike Up the Band (7 mins)
- Gershwin, arr. Jason Yarde Porgy and Bess - My man's gone now* (BBC commission: world premiere) (6 mins)
- Jason Yarde Rhythm and Other Fascinations (BBC commission: world premiere) (6 mins)
- Stravinsky Ebony Concerto (10 mins)
- Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (10 mins)
- Interval
- Gwilym Simcock Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC commission:
world premiere) (22 mins) - Gershwin An American in Paris (18 mins)
Gwilym Simcock piano
Phil Donkin bass
Martin France drums
Michael Collins clarinet
*Jason Yarde saxophone
BBC Concert Orchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor
Gwilym Simcock is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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