Prom 3 - 20.07.14: BBC Sport Prom

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sunday, 20 July
10.30 a.m. – c. 12.45 p.m.
Royal Albert Hall

Programme to include:

W.A. Mozart: A Musical Joke - Presto
Orff: Carmina Burana - 'O Fortuna'
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - 'Montagues and Capulets' ('Dance of the Knights')
Josef Strauss: Sport Polka
John Williams: Summon the Heroes (first performance at The Proms)
Selected TV themes, including Match of the Day, Test Match Special and Wimbledon

Gabby Logan, presenter (Proms debut artist)
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Concert Orchestra
Rebecca Miller, conductor

In a busy summer of sport that includes the World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and Wimbledon, comes the first ever BBC Sport Prom. Gabby Logan hosts a concert combining classical favourites recalling great sporting events with memorable TV themes. Sporting celebrities select their favourite classical items and we relive unforgettable sporting moments.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Crouch End Festival Chorus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_Festival_Chorus

[mercia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/archive/search/performers/crouch-end-festival-chorus/1

http://www.cefc.org.uk/

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks, Mercia. A much more informative link than the Wiki one.

[Petrushka]

Of course, the original Match of the Day theme should be played. Composed by Leslie Statham (aka Arnold Steck), one time Director of Music to the Band of the Welsh Guards and called Drum Majorette it's a thumping good march. Incidentally, his march Sporting Occasion is used for Wimbledon.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Of course, the original Match of the Day theme should be played. Composed by Leslie Statham

I was not aware there had ever been more than one.

[EdgeleyRob]

Showing one's age.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thanks, ER. It's rather fun, but I can't recall it at all.

[mercia]

Sporting celebrities select their favourite classical items

will a tennis player select Jeux ?

[Stanfordian]

This Prom is a right dog's breakfast I've had to turn it off. Gabby Logan et al and music doesnt work for me.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Ditto - all chat and very little music.
I'd be interested to know the attendance percentage of this concert.

[pastoralguy]

This Prom is a right dog's breakfast I've had to turn it off. Gabby Logan et al and music doesnt work for me.

There seems to be a very stilted conversation between Logan and a sports producer that is toe curlingly embarrassing.

[french frank]

There seems to be a very stilted conversation between Logan and a sports producer that is toe curlingly embarrassing.

The subject and the timing makes it clearly one of the Proms intended to attract new audiences who recognise what IS familiar to them already as much as the new experience.

[antongould]

There seems to be a very stilted conversation between Logan and a sports producer that is toe curlingly embarrassing.

Just been easily topped by a conversation between Wor Gabby and her husband!!!

[Pabmusic]

Crouch End Festival Chorus?...

Many is the time I (and the first Mrs Pabs) bedded down in Crouch End after an evening at The Queen's, with entertainment from Rupert Haymanski (York Bowen & Shura Cherkassky lived nearby). And a curry at the … ? … what on earth …? I was always too far gone!...