Prom 8: 21.07.16 - Strictly Prom

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

19:30 Thursday 21 Jul 2016 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Styne arr Martin Yates - Gypsy: Overture
Rodgers, arr Don Walker - Waltz from Carousel
Satie arr. Debussy - Gymnopédie No.1
Bizet - Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Arr. Paul Hart - Roaring Twenties Medley
J.Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Overture
Walter Earle Brown, arr Richard Balcombe - If I Can Dream
Richard Rodney Bennett - Overture, Waltz, Finale from Murder on the Orient Express
Ginastera - Malambo from Estancia: Four Dances
Harry Warren, arr Balcombe - 42nd Street
Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite: Mazurka and Waltz
John Barry - Somewhere in Time (main theme)
Antheil - Archipelago
Piazzolla, arr Gareth Glyn - Libertango
Tchaikovsky - Grand Pas de Deux in G (Adagio) from Nutcracker
Ary Barroso, arr John Wasson - Aquarela do Brasil
Falla - Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Irving Berlin arr. Gordon Langford and Gavin Sutherland - Selection from Top Hat


BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland
Presenter/Dancer: Katie Derham
Strictly Dancers: Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton, Kevin Clifton, Janette Manrara, Giovanni Pernice, Aljaž Skorjanec
Choreographer: Jason Gilkison

Katie Derham dons her dance shoes and ball gown once more, joined by some of your favourite professionals from Strictly Come Dancing, who will whisk us from Vienna to Latin America and back in the company of the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Gavin Sutherland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jmv1w

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jm3nb (repeat)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The selection of music seems fair enough.

But must we be subjected to the navel-contemplating SCD?

[french frank]

The selection of music seems fair enough.

But must we be subjected to the navel-contemplating SCD? :sad face:

I think there's only one John Wilson Prom this year - where there have been two. This is presumably the substitute 'light Prom', with the BBC keen to use the 'BBC Proms' to give one of its own popular programmes a bit of a boost. Just a variation on a theme rather than anything new.

[Serial_Apologist]

The selection of music seems fair enough.

But must we be subjected to the navel-contemplating SCD?

There's a special app now available so instead of navel-contemplating they can peer down at what is on their iphone and avoid tripping over their partner's shoes, ofr anything else that happens to be lying around in the way.

[Stanfordian]

19:30 Thursday 21 Jul 2016 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Styne arr Martin Yates - Gypsy: Overture
Rodgers, arr Don Walker - Waltz from Carousel
Satie arr. Debussy - Gymnopédie No.1
Bizet - Farandole from L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2
Arr. Paul Hart - Roaring Twenties Medley
J.Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Overture
Walter Earle Brown, arr Richard Balcombe - If I Can Dream
Richard Rodney Bennett - Overture, Waltz, Finale from Murder on the Orient Express
Ginastera - Malambo from Estancia: Four Dances
Harry Warren, arr Balcombe - 42nd Street
Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite: Mazurka and Waltz
John Barry - Somewhere in Time (main theme)
Antheil - Archipelago
Piazzolla, arr Gareth Glyn - Libertango
Tchaikovsky - Grand Pas de Deux in G (Adagio) from Nutcracker
Ary Barroso, arr John Wasson - Aquarela do Brasil
Falla - Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Irving Berlin arr. Gordon Langford and Gavin Sutherland - Selection from Top Hat


BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Gavin Sutherland
Presenter/Dancer: Katie Derham
Strictly Dancers: Joanne Clifton, Karen Clifton, Kevin Clifton, Janette Manrara, Giovanni Pernice, Aljaž Skorjanec
Choreographer: Jason Gilkison

Katie Derham dons her dance shoes and ball gown once more, joined by some of your favourite professionals from Strictly Come Dancing, who will whisk us from Vienna to Latin America and back in the company of the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Gavin Sutherland.

Yuk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pastoralguy]

Well, I'm really looking forward to this Prom since Mrs. PG and I are firm Strictly fans. Lovely music, tremendous dancing from extremely accomplished dancers and lovely costumes and spectacle.

[french frank]

tremendous dancing from extremely accomplished dancers and …

… and Katie Derham. But there, she is very popular and in this Prom she's in her element.

[antongould]

… and Katie Derham. But there, she is very popular......

Especially around here ......

[ahinton]

in this Prom she's in her element.

Where exactly on the periodic table does she lie? (molybderham, peut-être?).

But why must this stuff be in the Proms? Is it Strictly neccessary?

[Stanfordian]

Where exactly on the periodic table does she lie? (molybderham, peut-être?).

But why must this stuff be in the Proms? Is it Strictly neccessary?

No wonder this mash-up is on the TV; it wouldn’t be much use on the Radio! Presenters dancing as amateurs with Professionals at the Proms. This is the BBC broadening the scope of Proms reaching out to a new audience.

[ahinton]

No wonder this mash-up is on the TV; it wouldn’t be much use on the Radio! Amateur presenters dancing with Professionals at the Proms. This the BBC broadening the scope of Proms reaching out to a new audience.

There'd certainly be some reaching going on, but that wasn't quite the kind that had occurred to me.

The egregious presenter concerned may be "popular" but, to me, her principal claim to fam is the extent of her anagrammatisability, viz.

I harmed Kate
Make it heard
Kite ram head
Hide tea mark
Team hid rake
Dire ham Kate
I market head
Hake dream it
A hermit drake
Hem a dark tie
Hate kid maker

and so on (if you want any more you can dance it yourself)…

[Stanfordian]

There'd certainly be some reaching going on, but that wasn't quite the kind that had occurred to me.

The egregious presenter concerned may be "popular" but, to me, her principal claim to fam is the extent of her anagrammatisability, viz.

I harmed Kate
Make it heard
Kite ram head
Hide tea mark
Team hid rake
Dire ham Kate
I market head
Hake dream it
A hermit drake
Hem a dark tie
Hate kid maker

and so on (if you want any more you can dance it yourself)…

I wrote "Amateur presenters dancing with Professionals at the Proms" but I meant "Presenters dancing as amateurs with professional dancers at the Proms". A Freudian slip I think!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This the BBC broadening the scope of Proms reaching out to a new audience.

Do they really think it works?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There'd certainly be some reaching going on, but that wasn't quite the kind that had occurred to me.

The egregious presenter concerned may be "popular" but, to me, her principal claim to fam is the extent of her anagrammatisability, viz.

I harmed Kate
Make it heard
Kite ram head
Hide tea mark
Team hid rake
Dire ham Kate
I market head
Hake dream it
A hermit drake
Hem a dark tie
Hate kid maker

and so on (if you want any more you can dance it yourself)…

That reminds me of my old boss, whose anagram was MR HITLER BE CLOT.

[PhilipT]

Do they really think it works?

It certainly brings to the Proms people who have never been to the Proms before. If that's the goal it achieves it. If the goal is to bring a new audience to classical music then it doesn't - they don't come again. If the goal is to persuade regular Prom-goers of the merits of other musical forms then it's tended to have mostly the opposite effect on me, I must say.