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SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2009
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2.00pm Film God Rot Tunbridge Wells (120', exempt from classification). Tony Palmer's film on Handel's life, starring Trevor Howard. Introduced by the director.
5.15pm Proms Intro Stephen Johnson in conversation with composer John McCabe about the process of composition and his Horn Concerto, with musicians from the Royal College of Music.
Prom 67: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Date Saturday 5 September 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.05pm
- 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.
- This programme is no longer available.
Inspired by a comic strip about a frisky young lady-fox, Janáček's forest opera The Cunning Little Vixen is a heart-warming humanist hymn to nature's eternal cycle of life and death. Marking John McCabe's 70th birthday, the programme includes his Horn Concerto, which combines urban jazz with the sounds of the equatorial rainforests. The major musical memento of Dvořák's directorship of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, his Ninth Symphony was partly inspired by the scene of Minnehaha's forest funeral in Longfellow's Hiawatha but also exudes nostalgia for his - and the Vixen's - native Bohemian woods and fields.
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Janáček, arr. Talich The Cunning Little Vixen - suite (17 mins)
- John McCabe Horn Concerto 'Rainforest IV' London premiere (24 mins)
- interval
- Dvořák Symphony No.9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (42 mins)
- David Pyatt horn
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Jac van Steen conductor
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