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WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2009
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6.15pm Proms Intro
To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, Louise Fryer hosts a discussion with past and present
Directors of Music at King's College – Sir David Willcocks and Stephen Cleobury – alongside Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge and composer Ryan Wigglesworth.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 8: 800th Anniversary of Cambridge University
- Date Wednesday 22 July 2009
- Time 8.00pm - c10.30pm
- 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.
We celebrate Cambridge University's 800th anniversary with a concert of music given by a convocation of the university's college choirs and two soloists and a conductor who are among its graduates. As Professor of Music, Stanford taught Vaughan Williams, who wrote his Wasps overture for a university staging of Aristophanes' comedy, and later set verses by a former University Orator, George Herbert, in his Five Mystical Songs.
Jonathan Harvey – who this year celebrates his 70th birthday – and Judith Weir also studied at Cambridge. Ryan Wigglesworth went to Oxford but is now a Cambridge lecturer and fellow of Corpus Christi College: in a Proms double debut this season, he returns to co-conduct the BBC SO in Prom 39. Saint-Saëns was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in 1893.
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Programme notes available:
- Vaughan Williams The Wasps - Overture (9 mins)
- Ryan Wigglesworth The Genesis of Secrecy (c10 mins) BBC commission: world premiere
- Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (18 mins)
- interval
- Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A major (12 mins)
- Jonathan Harvey Come, Holy Ghost* (7 mins)
- Judith Weir Ascending into Heaven† (8 mins)
- Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, 'Organ' (36 mins)
- Simon Keenlyside baritone
- Thomas Trotter organ
- Choirs of King's and St John's colleges
- Choirs of Clare, Gonville and Caius, and Trinity colleges
- Choirs from combined Cambridge colleges
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Andrew Davis conductor
- Stephen Cleobury† conductor
- Andrew Nethsingha* conductor
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