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  • bluestateprommer
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    • Nov 2010
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    Prom 73: The Last Night, BBC SO / BBC SC / BBC Singers, Blue / Hough / Oramo

    Saturday 14 September 2024
    19:00
    Royal Albert Hall

    The Last Night of the 2024 Proms


    Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture

    Puccini:
    (a) Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro’
    (b) Madama Butterfly – 'Humming Chorus'
    (c) Tosca – ‘Vissi d’arte’

    Carlos Simon: Hellfighters' Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

    Fauré: Pavane, op. 50

    Ives: The Yale-Princeton Football Game

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 'Summer Is Gone' (first performance at The Proms)

    Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (first performance at The Proms)

    Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, op. 103 (‘Egyptian’) - II. Andante

    [Encore: The Sherman Brothers (arr. Stephen Hough): 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' (first performance at The Proms)]


    Interval


    Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere)

    Henry Mancini (arr. Gavin Sutherland): 'The Pink Panther'

    Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals (first performance at The Proms)

    Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores’ (Carceleras)

    Traditional (arr. Sir Henry Wood): Fantasia on British Sea Songs
    Thomas Arne (arr. Sargent): "Rule, Britannia!"

    Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’), op. 39, no. 1

    Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem

    The National Anthem (arr. Britten)

    'Auld Lang Syne​' (arr. P. Campbell)


    Angel Blue, soprano (Proms debut artist)
    Sir Stephen Hough, piano

    BBC Singers
    BBC Symphony Chorus
    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor


    Live at the BBC Proms: the season closes with star soloists Angel Blue & Sir Stephen Hough




    Part 1 (on BBC TWO):

    Classical music's biggest party of the year, with Sir Stephen Hough and Angel Blue.


    Part 2 (on BBC ONE):

    Katie Derham invites you to join her for the traditional glittering finale.
    Starts
    14-09-24 19:00
    Ends
    14-09-24 22:15
    Location
    Royal Albert Hall
    Last edited by bluestateprommer; 14-09-24, 19:32. Reason: added piano encore
  • Pulcinella
    Host
    • Feb 2014
    • 10921

    #2
    Times interview with Angel Blue.

    The Californian diva is the soloist at the Last Night of the Proms, but she feels English at heart — and isn’t thinking about critics who say the patriotic aria has had its day

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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8458

      #3
      When - if ever - has a Last Night previously featured one movement of a concerto?
      I've forgotten how long it's been since I last watched what has in recent days been promoted as 'the world's greatest classical music party'
      Last edited by LMcD; 14-09-24, 07:17.

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      • Darkbloom
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        • Feb 2015
        • 706

        #4
        Originally posted by LMcD View Post

        When - if ever - has a Last Night previously featured one movement of a concerto?
        I've forgotten how long it's been since I last watched what has in recent days been promoted as 'the world's greatest classical music party'
        It's even bittier than usual. Oramo is going to be exhausted with the number of times he has to walk on and off stage. I never watch the last night anyway. I hope those who do have a good time, but the season ended yesterday for me. And a enjoyable one it was.

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        • oddoneout
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          • Nov 2015
          • 9184

          #5
          Originally posted by LMcD View Post

          When - if ever - has a Last Night previously featured one movement of a concerto?
          I've forgotten how long it's been since I last watched what has in recent days been promoted as 'the world's greatest classical music party'
          The transition from celebration concert to party has worked for some no doubt but I can't be doing with it. I would rather that the full fat party aspect was reserved for the Proms in the park events, (which I think are well worth doing) and the RAH event went back to being about music, albeit with a twinkle in the eye and a bit of fun as well. I don't think I'll bother tuning in for the first half (which is what I've done for several years now,not least as the whole thing just goes on too long these days) as there isn't even a main course (concerto) among the hors d'oeuvres.

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          • Master Jacques
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            • Feb 2012
            • 1882

            #6
            One bright spot: this is the first time a zarzuela romanza (aria) has been sung at the Last Night. Chapí's famous and spectacular 'Carceleras' is one of Angel Blue's specialities: she includes a lot of zarzuela solo showpieces in her repertoire, and does them well.

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            • Ein Heldenleben
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              • Apr 2014
              • 6779

              #7
              From the comments so far ( MJ excepted) you’d think the BBC had deliberately concocted this programme to annoy people when all they are trying to do is entice a mass audience to an art form that’s pretty much ( in this country ) stagnating / long- term dying through lack of public support.

              3.5 million watched the Last Night last year - a figure equivalent to about 83 %of all the people who go to a classical music concert in the UK in a year . I’ll be watching though frankly giving Sir SH one movement of a concerto is a bit of an insult to a great musician, I hope he at least gets the full fee!

              On the “worlds greatest classical music party “ I would have thought in terms of numbers some of those Andre Rieu stadium concerts must be bigger ….

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              • LMcD
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                • Sep 2017
                • 8458

                #8
                Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                From the comments so far ( MJ excepted) you’d think the BBC had deliberately concocted this programme to annoy people when all they are trying to do is entice a mass audience to an art form that’s pretty much ( in this country ) stagnating / long- term dying through lack of public support.

                3.5 million watched the Last Night last year - a figure equivalent to about 83 %of all the people who go to a classical music concert in the UK in a year . I’ll be watching though frankly giving Sir SH one movement of a concerto is a bit of an insult to a great musician, I hope he at least gets the full fee!

                On the “worlds greatest classical music party “ I would have thought in terms of numbers some of those Andre Rieu stadium concerts must be bigger ….
                There's quite often an Andre Rieu concert on the TV when I visit the care home. The response from the otherwise normally listless residents sitting in the lounge is good to see - toe-tapping, conducting and singing along. On the screen, the enjoyment of the audience, who seem to come from every age group from the 20s to the 80s, is palpable.
                The VPO's Summer Night Concert from Schoenbrunn always attracts a very large audience, as do concerts at the Waldbuehne.

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                • Ein Heldenleben
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                  • Apr 2014
                  • 6779

                  #9
                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                  There's quite often an Andre Rieu concert on the TV when I visit the care home. The response from the otherwise normally listless residents sitting in the lounge is good to see - toe-tapping, conducting and singing along. On the screen, the enjoyment of the audience, who seem to come from every age group from the 20s to the 80s, is palpable.
                  The VPO's Summer Night Concert from Schoenbrunn always attracts a very large audience, as do concerts at the Waldbuehne.
                  Music is so important in care homes isn’t it ? A real connection with the past, and current emotional release. I once filmed at a residential h9me and they had a tea dance there - it completely an8mated the place . It was run by Devon County Council .It even had a cocktail cabinet - sold off for housing years ago.

                  People can look down their noses at AR but he does what he does well and he sells tickets in numbers most classical musos can only dream of. His live streams at our local Cineworld cinema are usually shown at the largest screens simultaneously. Not sure about those frocks or the mullet though .

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                  • Petrushka
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12245

                    #10
                    Once again, the heart sinks as we come to the Last Night. Not just because of the bitty fare on offer but because it is the traditional end of summer, regardless of the fact that it seems to have ended a few days ago.
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • Ein Heldenleben
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                      • Apr 2014
                      • 6779

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                      Once again, the heart sinks as we come to the Last Night. Not just because of the bitty fare on offer but because it is the traditional end of summer, regardless of the fact that it seems to have ended a few days ago.
                      One house rule - no switching on the central heating till after the Last Night . It was so cold Thursday night I had to for precisely one hour.

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                      • LMcD
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                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8458

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post

                        One house rule - no switching on the central heating till after the Last Night . It was so cold Thursday night I had to for precisely one hour.
                        Much to my annoyance, I had to switch on the gas fire in the lounge twice this week, albeit for only an hour or so in total. The central heating will stay off for as long as possible.

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                        • Petrushka
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                          • Nov 2010
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post

                          One house rule - no switching on the central heating till after the Last Night . It was so cold Thursday night I had to for precisely one hour.
                          I'm afraid I capitulated on Thursday, too!
                          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                          • Darkbloom
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                            • Feb 2015
                            • 706

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                            Once again, the heart sinks as we come to the Last Night. Not just because of the bitty fare on offer but because it is the traditional end of summer, regardless of the fact that it seems to have ended a few days ago.
                            It's almost as though someone flicks a switch. One day you're still trying to pretend it's summer, the next you're definitely in autumn. I couldn't believe how cold it was walking home last night. I almost needed a coat.

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                            • Ein Heldenleben
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                              • Apr 2014
                              • 6779

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Darkbloom View Post

                              It's almost as though someone flicks a switch. One day you're still trying to pretend it's summer, the next you're definitely in autumn. I couldn't believe how cold it was walking home last night. I almost needed a coat.
                              northerly winds thankfully now changing to southerly - it’ll get warmer so I can delay staring at the smart meter a few more weeks.

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