Prom 19: 29.07.16 - David Bowie Prom

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15 Friday 29 Jul 2016 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

s t a r g a z e Ensemble
André de Ridder conductor

A celebration and reinterpretation of the music of David Bowie with the Berlin-based, genre-defying musicians? collective s t a r g a z e and its Artistic Director André de Ridder.
They are joined by guest singers and collaborators - including Jherek Bischoff, Anna Calvi and Amanda Palmer - to re-imagine the Bowie catalogue with fresh settings of classic works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m4956

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lg66h

[zola]

Prom 19 ?

Not even a thread for people to express their predictable outrage ?

( Where was this thread lurking then ? Oh well, not important, it's just that I scrolled down the list about three times to make sure no thread had been started )

[bluestateprommer]

Prom 19: 29.07.16 - David Bowie Prom

22:15 Friday 29 Jul 2016
Royal Albert Hall

Programme TBA, to include:
(a) Selections by David Bowie
(b) David Lang: new work, title TBA, based on Bowie's 'Always Crashing in the Same Car' (world premiere)
(c) Other composer collaborations with Michel van der Aa, Jherek Bischoff, Anna Meredith, Greg Saunier and Josephine Stephenson

Marc Almond, singer (Proms debut artist)
Jherek Bischoff, iinstrumentalist (Proms debut artist)
Paul Buchanan, singer (Proms debut artist)
John Cale, singer (Proms debut artist)
Anna Calvi, singer (Proms debut artist)
Neil Hannon, singer (Proms debut artist)
Philippe Jarousky, countertenor
Laura Mvula, singer
Conor O’Brien, singer (Proms debut artist)
Amanda Palmer, singer (Proms debut artist)

s t a r g a z e (Proms debut ensemble)
André de Ridder, conductor

A celebration and reinterpretation of the music of David Bowie with the Berlin-based, genre-defying musicians’ collective s t a r g a z e and its Artistic Director André de Ridder.

They are joined by guest singers and collaborators – including Michel van der Aa, Jherek Bischoff, David Lang, Anna Meredith, Greg Saunier and Josephine Stephenson – to re-imagine the Bowie catalogue with fresh settings of classic works.

(PS: I hope that EA doesn't mind my presumption here.)

[Stunsworth]

I'm looking forward to is (presumably I'm the only person who is).

[pastoralguy]

I'm looking forward to is (presumably I'm the only person who is).

It's not my thing but I don't for one second think it shouldn't happen. (Unlike certain other Proms that have happened this season...)

Hope you enjoy it.

[french frank]

I'm looking forward to is (presumably I'm the only person who is).

I very much doubt that you're the only person looking forward to it.

[mozart79]

I'm looking forward to is (presumably I'm the only person who is).

no not at all i i'm too ! :)

[EdgeleyRob]

no not at all i i'm too ! :)

Me too

“The sun machine is coming down, and we’re gonna have a party."

Just about to start.

[Anastasius]

Who cares? What is precisely the relevance of DB to classical music?

[bluestateprommer]

Who cares? Well:

http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/peter_dobrin/20160117_Recalling_Bowie_s_1978_pairing_with_the_Philadelphia_Orchestra.html

"What's remarkable about Bowie is that he represented in 1978 all that was new, much as he did still when he died last week. Who could claim the same place today? Who has enough mass appeal today to cut across genre divides, to deliver pop fans to classical while perhaps showing classical fans that speaking in colloquial tones carries power, too?

Does today's ambassador to classical come from London, New York, or Compton? Does she wear a hijab, or hail from a particular political territory? It's no secret that every cultural choice today gets dissected, overthought, pummeled, and cheered in the superficial light of social media. Cultural appropriation? For classical music, borrowing from another cultural realm is a tried and true route to rejuvenation.

More important, though a new generation of young Americans may have the world at their fingertips, never have they needed more a smart guide who knows, as Bowie did, that the best places to go for a productive day of culture-hunting are often somewhat out of the way."

[Serial_Apologist]

So much is being made of reproducing the quavering voice, I'm going to have to switch off.

[Richard Barrett]

I'm a great admirer of Bowie's music which is why I wouldn't go near this.

[LHC]

This is dire.

[mozart79]

this is very disappointing indeed i had high hopes this would be an event that would honour his memory if anything to me it's done the exact opposite poor stuff indeed i hope who ever let this shambles on the air needed given there p45.

[Stanfordian]

Been listening 20mins. Marc Almond's faultering voice is killing 'Starman'. I'm not sure what that performance was before it. High time for the off switch, can't stand any more!