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SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 2009
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- 2.00pm Family Chorus: Singing Day
- 4.45pm Proms Intro: Handel's Messiah
- 6.30pm Prom 68: Handel: Messiah
4.45pm Proms Intro National Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall introduces Handel's Messiah and performances by Sing Up choirs.
Prom 68: Handel: Messiah
- Date Sunday 6 September 2009
- Time 6.30pm - c9.30pm
- 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.
Our commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Handel's death reaches its climax with a large-scale, Royal Albert Hall-sized performance of Messiah – echoing the late-18th-century monster concerts that inspired Haydn's Creation (Prom 2) – Handel specialist Nicholas McGegan conducts a unique massed choir of young voices from around the UK, assembled under the direction of leading choral specialist Simon Halsey.
There will be one interval
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Handel Messiah (c135 mins)
- Dominique Labelle soprano
- Patricia Bardon mezzo-soprano
- John Mark Ainsley tenor
- Matthew Rose bass
- Members of:
- City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
- Hallé Youth Choir
- National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- National Youth Choir of Wales
- Quay Voices (The Sage Gateshead)
- RSCM Millennium Youth Choir
- Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir*
- Northern Sinfonia
- Nicholas McGegan conductor
*Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir is the winner of BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2008.
Choir of the Year 2010, in association with BBC Radio 3, is now open for entries.
Visit www.choiroftheyear.com to find out more and download an online entry form.
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