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Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra in a Prom celebrating Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen, including works by Walton and Bernstein.

Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart celebrate music from stage and screen inspired by Shakespeare's plays, including Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, based on Romeo and Juliet, and selections from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and Richard Rodgers's The Boys from Syracuse.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Penny Gore.

Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude to Richard III
Finzi: Suite from Love's Labour's Lost
Sullivan: Overture to Act IV of The Tempest, Op 1
Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare
Joby Talbot: "Springtime Dance" from The Winter's Tale

8.20pm INTERVAL
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington looks at the depiction of actors and acting as a metaphor in Shakespeare's plays. Dr Sarah Dillon hosts the recording with an audience at Imperial College Union.

8.40pm
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

The Bard on Broadway
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate - Another Openin', Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the Life that Late I Led?; So In Love

Rodgers/Hart: The Boys from Syracuse - Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can't Be Love

Porter: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (Kiss Me, Kate)

Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers)
91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare's characters as reflected on stage and screen - with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.

PROMS EXTRA: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the 91Èȱ¬ and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

2 hours, 45 minutes

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Richard III Suite (arr. Muir Mathieson)

    Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love’s Labour’s Lost – suite

    Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Tempest – Overture to Act 4

    Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • William Walton

    As You Like It – a poem for orchestra after Shakespeare

    Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Joby Talbot

    Springtime Dance from The Winter's Tale

    Performer: Graham Bickley. Performer: Anna-Jane Casey. Performer: Sarah Eyden. Performer: Joseph Shovelton. Performer: Hannah Waddingham. Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

    Performer: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Performer: Keith Lockhart.
  • Cole Porter

    Kiss Me Kate (Songs)

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Richard Rodgers

    The Boys from Syracuse (Songs)

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Cole Porter

    Brush Up Your Shakespeare

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
  • Soshanah Sievers

    Les nuances de la lumiere

    Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No 2

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
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c. 10.00pm: 91Èȱ¬ PROMS INSPIRE - YOUNG COMPOSERS' CONCERT

c. 10.00pm: 91Èȱ¬ PROMS INSPIRE - YOUNG COMPOSERS' CONCERT

The annual 91Èȱ¬ Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition for 12-18 year olds provides what most composers only dream of: the chance to haveÌýtheir music performed by professional musicians at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms and broadcast on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3. Not only this - winners also receive a 91Èȱ¬ commission for a high-profile performance and are mentored throughout the process by a professional composer.

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On Monday 15th August 2016 the Aurora Orchestra gave a concert in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London featuring the six winning pieces from this year's competition.ÌýBetween now and Monday 22nd August there's a chance to hear these winning pieces and tonight it'sÌýthe turn ofÌýShoshanah SieversÌýandÌýher piece entitled Les nuances de la lumiere.

Credit

Role Contributor
Performer 91Èȱ¬ Concert Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Aug 2016 19:30

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