Proms 2 & 3: Ten Pieces (18.07.15/19.07.15)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

6.30 p.m. Saturday 18th July
11.00 a.m. Sunday 19th July (not broadcast live)

Royal Albert Hall
BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Thomas Sondergard perform music from Ten Pieces, the initiative that aims to inspire children to get creative with classical music.

Holst: Mars (from The Planets)
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor (first movement)
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Britten: 'Storm' Interlude (from Peter Grimes)
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Anna Meredith: Connect It (BBC Commission; London Premiere)
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Mozart: Horn Concerto No.4 (third Movement)
Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt)
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite 1910) (finale)

Barney Harwood
Dick and Dom
Molly Rainford
Dan Starkey
Tim Thorpe (horn)

Ten Pieces Children's Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Since the Ten Pieces film launched last October, children in schools across the UK have been working on their own creative responses to music by Beethoven, Britten, Mozart, Mussorgsky and others, with the help of BBC ensembles. Some of the results now come to the Royal Albert Hall, where they will be performed alongside extracts from the Ten Pieces that inspired them. This Prom is a musical celebration showcasing digital art, dance and new composition, bringing the first year of the BBC's Ten Pieces project to a triumphant close. Barney Harwood and Dick and Dom join in the fun.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you miss this (and you have two attempts to hear it live) it's repeated on Wednesday, 22nd July on R3 in the afternoon.

[Nick Armstrong]

you have two attempts to hear it live

... oh I see what you mean!

Actually there'll be a fourth opportunity - it's being recorded for TV as a quick glance at Andrew's fantastic 'one page list' confirms. Can't imagine the likes of "Dick & Dom" would be allowed to be involved without being able to show their faces to their adoring public.

I'm pretty certain I shall fail on all 4 occasions to catch this one - largely due to making no attempts to do so!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm pretty certain I shall fail on all 4 occasions to catch this one - largely due to making no attempts to do so!

I'll be listening. I'm genuinely interested in the project, though I thought the film was crass.

[Andrew Slater]

I don't think the Sunday morning performance (Prom 3) is being broadcast live (which puts the lie to the BBC's claim that every concert is broadcast live )

[Pulcinella]

I don't think the Sunday morning performance (Prom 3) is being broadcast live (which puts the lie to the BBC's claim that every concert is broadcast live )

Not for the first time either; other similar 'repeated' concerts other years have not been broadcast live.

[maestro267]

One year, they should do a "throw 'em in at the deep end" concert aimed at kids. Theme: "The Wonders of Twelve-Tone Serialism".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't think the Sunday morning performance (Prom 3) is being broadcast live (which puts the lie to the BBC's claim that every concert is broadcast live )

That's quite true. I'll amend the OP.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Perhaps they should have numbered the concerts 2a & 2b. Then there would have been no issue of not broadcasting the Sunday repeat.

[Bryn]

One year, they should do a "throw 'em in at the deep end" concert aimed at kids. Theme: "The Wonders of Twelve-Tone Serialism".

Oh come on. If they were to do something of that sort, they should do it properly, offering some of the various versions of "full serialism", not merely the 12 tone variety.

[cloughie]

... oh I see what you mean!

Actually there'll be a fourth opportunity - it's being recorded for TV as a quick glance at Andrew's fantastic 'one page list' confirms. Can't imagine the likes of "Dick & Dom" would be allowed to be involved without being able to show their faces to their adoring public.

I'm pretty certain I shall fail on all 4 occasions to catch this one - largely due to making no attempts to do so!

Take care Cali - with four chances it may just creep in unannounced!

[MrGongGong]

Oh come on. If they were to do something of that sort, they should do it properly, offering some of the various versions of "full serialism", not merely the 12 tone variety.

Sounds a great idea to me

Paragraph 1 would be splendid also (I'll bring the pebbles)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I did listen to a bit of this. I wasn't impressed.

[Nick Armstrong]

Take care Cali - with four chances it may just creep in unannounced!

So far, so good!

[mrbouffant]

I did listen to a bit of this. I wasn't impressed.

I guess you weren't the target demographic?