Prom 66 - 1.09.13: Family Matinee: The Big Proms Bear Hunt

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

4.00pm – c. 5.50pm
Royal Albert Hall

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Jonathan Willcocks: Meet the Orchestra
Ian Stephens: We're going on a bear hunt
Klaus Badelt arr. Stephens: Pirates of the Caribbean
Alan Menken arr. Stephens: Under the Sea
Villa-Lobos: Little train of the Caipira (Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2)
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - Evening Prayer
Mussorgsky: Great Gate of Kiev

4.25pm Interval

4.45pm
Mussorgsky: Great Gate of Kiev
Grieg: 'In the Hall of the Mountain' King from Peer Gynt
Shostakovich: A Spin through Moscow (Cheryomushki)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Trepak
Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2 - excerpt
Britten: Nocturne from Matinées Musicales
Elgar: The Wild Bears, from "The Wand of Youth, Suite No.2"
Ian Stephens: The "scramble back home" music
Stravinsky: The Firebird - Berceuse and Finale


Michael Rosen storyteller
Tony Ross illustrator
In Harmony Liverpool
Liverpool Philharmonic Children's Choirs
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthew Coorey conductor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This seems far better than those trashy Proms that dumb down.

[VodkaDilc]

I think I am right in saying the Adams was scheduled to be performed just after the Princess of Wales's mysterious death and just after 9/11. On each occasion it was abandoned (without it even being referred to after the Princess incident and with a complete change of programme after 9/11.) Should we expect a disaster in the final days of August this year?

PS Good programme - what's it got to do with bears?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Two Great Gates of Kiev?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Two Great Gates of Kiev?

That may be an error on the BBC website.

[Anna]

Well I thought it was jolly good fun!
And, I sang along "we can't go under it, we can't go over it"
Not sure how old the audience were (the book is for 3 to 5 year olds) but good choice of music linked to the story.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My granddaughter loves the book, but she's rather too young for the concert.

[french frank]

Two Great Gates of Kiev?

It could be. Second half starting where the first half finished? Much as, as a concert, it wouldn't have great appeal for me (not being a child), that does seem as if it's giving classical music more of a look-in for a new audience: is it that young children are considered to be more open-minded than 'older youth'? I hope children and parents really enjoyed this one.

[Anna]

It could be. Second half starting where the first half finished? Much as, as a concert, it wouldn't have great appeal for me (not being a child), that does seem as if it's giving classical music more of a look-in for a new audience: is it that young children are considered to be more open-minded than 'older youth'? I hope children and parents really enjoyed this one.

Yes, logically, first half finished with Kiev- interval whilst children taken to loo - started where they left off, Kiev, and it's off and away we go!
I really liked it, but then, I have a teddy.

[Rupert P Matley]

I enjoyed the music, and the fact that so many children got to perform both singing and with the RLPO, but it would have made far more sense (particularly with the drawings and general visual aspects) for the concert to be broadcast on television, even if it was recorded for a later transmission - but alas, no.

[Mary Chambers]

I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. It seemed very lively, though I felt it was a bit too long for very young children. It was a clever idea to have the Bear Hunt going through different countries - hence the Great Gate of Kiev and the Trepak etc. What an exciting experience for the children from In Harmony, and for the children's choirs, who did pretty well, I thought.

Apparently it was the second concert to sell out, after the Dr Who one!