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SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2009
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Prom 23: EVOLUTION! A Darwin-inspired extravaganza for kids
- Date Sunday 2 August 2009
- Time 11.00am - c1.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6 or £12 price band G or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programmes is no longer available.
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: Sine Tempore - Without Time.
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Programme notes available:
- Improvised "Big Bang" - including audience participation (Charles Hazlewood to "rehearse" the audience at c10.50am)
- Britten Storm - from 'Peter Grimes'
- Leifs Hekla
- John Williams Jurassic Park - main theme
- James Brett Walking with Dinosaurs - main theme / Tyrannosaurus rex - In defence of young / Raptor hunt
- interval
- GoldieSine tempore (BBC commission, world premiere)#
- Arvo Pärt If Bach had been a beekeeper....
- Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
- Koechlin The law of the jungle
- Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
- John Williams Star Wars - main theme
- Barney Harwood presenter
- Gemma Hunt presenter
- with special guest Sir David Attenborough
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- London Philharmonic Choir
- Charles Hazlewood conductor
- Nicholas Collon off-stage conductor
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5.45pm Proms Literary Festival
Victorian Season: : Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate, 1999-2009) introduces his choice of Tennyson poems, 200 years after the great poet's birth in 1809. With readings performed by Fiona Shaw. Matthew Sweet is the host.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 24: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Sunday 2 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- These programmes are no longer available.
After conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at last year's Proms, Susanna Mälkki returns for Berlioz's thunderous Te Deum. One of his most gargantuan as well as dramatic works, it involved almost 1,000 performers at its 1855 Paris premiere. Simon Preston returns after his solo recital in last year's Proms Bach Day to play the vital organ part, alongside massed choirs of adults and children.
A new work by the young Paris-based British composer Ben Foskett prefaces the symphony in which, after the great leap forward of the 'Eroica' (Prom 25), Berlioz's idol, Beethoven, took a last look back at the more serene Classical style of Haydn. Tomorrow evening's Prom brings another Beethoven/Berlioz pairing.
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Programme notes available:
- Ben Foskett From Trumpet (BBC commission; world premiere) (c12 mins)
- Beethoven Symphony No.4 in B-flat major (34 mins)
- interval
- Berlioz Te Deum (50 mins)
- Simon Preston organ
- Jörg Schneider tenor
- Bach Choir
- BBC Symphony Chorus
- Crouch End Festival Chorus
- Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
- Trinity Boys Choir
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Susanna Mälkki conductor
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