Proms season 2010

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In Tune 5.00pm Live from RCM Prom 1 8pm - 9.30pm MahlerSymphony No.8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand' Mardi Byerssoprano Twyla Robinsonsoprano Malin Christenssonsoprano Stephanie Blythemezzo-soprano Kelly O'Connormezzo-soprano Nikolai Schukofftenor Hanno Müller-Brachmannbaritone Tomasz Koniecznybass Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Choristers of Westminster Abbey Choristers of Westminster Cathedral BBC Symphony Chorus Crouch End Festival Chorus Sydney Philharmonia Choirs BBC Symphony Orchestra,Jiří Bělohlávekconductor

Opera Day 11am Come and Sing Wagner Opera Day 11am Wagner Study Session Proms Intros 2.15pm The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Prom 2 4pm - 10.15pm WagnerThe Mastersingers of Nuremberg Bryn TerfelHans Sachs  Raymond VeryWalther von Stoltzing  Amanda RoocroftEva Christopher PurvesBeckmesser  Andrew TortiseDavid  Anna BurfordMagdalene David SoarNightwatchman  Brindley SherrattPogner Simon ThorpeKothner David StoutNachtigall Paul HodgesSchwartz Rhys MeirionZorn Andrew ReesEisslinger  Stephen RookeMoser  Arwel Huw MorganFoltz Geraint DoddVogelgesang  Owen WebbOrtel Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera,Lothar Koenigsconductor

Proms Intros 4.15pm Simon Boccanegra Prom 3 6pm - 9pm VerdiSimon Boccanegra Plácido DomingoSimon Boccanegra Marina PoplavskayaAmelia Joseph CallejaGabriele Adorno Ferruccio FurlanettoJacopo Fiesco Jonathan SummersPaolo Albiani Lukas JakobskiPietro Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,Antonio Pappanoconductor

last night of the proms reviews

The newest music on offer in the Last Night was the opening scene from Thomas Adès’s 2004 opera, The Tempest, a wonderful, rollicking sea-storm of an overture, its dark waves and undertow magnificently recreated by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by JirÍ Belohlávek.

So, how would the Prommers take to their new maestro? This was Belohlávek’s first Last Night, and it was hardly a baptism by fire. He signed in with the Othello overture by his Czech compatriot, Dvorák. And then he reminded us that The Entry of the Gladiators, that audacious march with which clowns roll and tumble into the big top, was actually written by a pupil of Dvorák, Julius FucÍk. As it raced along, the Prommers at last started bobbing up and down, as an airborne parrot levitated towards the dome, and Belohlávek called for three cheers for Sir Malcolm Sargent.

The warm and decorous cries of “Hip, hip hooray!” epitomised the unusually gentle, olde-worlde, home-sweet-homeliness of this Last Night. The Prommers didn’t bait Belohlávek, and he didn’t bait them. His speech was a disarmingly diffident and dignified eulogy of the Prommers own “profound and passionate love for this wonderful event”, garnished with gentlemanly greetings to those cities linked by big screen to the Albert Hall. These links provided one of the evening’s real coups: the echoing responses from buglers far and wide to the bugle calls at the start of Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea-Songs. And – to reassure everyone that this really was a party - the soprano Anna Netrebko, who had held a hushed auditorium in the palm of her hand for the closing scene from Bellini’s La Sonnambula, sang, danced, and scattered red roses throughout her aria Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss from Léhar’s Giuditta.

And, of course, Elgar. Not only Pomp and Circumstance, but a moving vignette from the First World War, in the first Proms performance of The Fourth of August from The Spirit of England, magnificently sung by the tenor Andrew Kennedy with the BBC Symphony Chorus.

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Last Night of the Proms 2010 tickets

 The world famous Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall brings the terrific summer season of The Proms to a fitting finale. Described by conductor Jiri Belohlavek as "the world's largest and most democratic musical festival", last year's event saw the total number of concerts reach 100 for the first time. The Last Night is traditionally very different from the eight weeks that precede it, following a lighter, 'winding-down' vein and often pandering to popular classics and Patriotic Anthems (Rule, Britannia!, anyone?). Tickets are almost as hard to come by as Centre Court passes for the Wimbledon finals, but like the tennis, the whole thing is broadcast live on the BBC - and all round the world.

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Having previous Visits done by international orchestras, such as the Royal Concertgebouw under Mariss Jansons, the Leipzig Gewandhaus under Riccardo Chailly, and the Vienna Philharmonic under Harnoncourt and Mehta, are contrasted with a Bollywood extravaganza, a complete performance of Handel's Samson and three performances from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The latter includes a complete performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in concert, with a rare UK visit from Waltraud Meier as Leonore, Simon O'Neill as Florestan and Sir John Tomlinson as Rocco. Barenboim will also lead the orchestra in the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

The birthday composers are well served. In addition to Partenope and Samson, Handel is represented by a brilliant performance of Messiah, four of the Coronation Anthems, arias from several of the operas and excerpts from Music for the Royal Fireworks. Glyndebourne's production of The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms in a semi-staging, while other Purcell works are showcased in a Chamber Prom and on the Last Night. Mendelssohn does particularly well, with the symphonies, the Violin Concerto and the First Piano Concerto. Of note here is the Halle's performance of Symphony No 2, Lobegesang, with its extended choral movement. Haydn, too, is celebrated, but perhaps less extensively so than might be the case, given his enormous output. Still, The Creation should be a highlight, with soprano Rosemary Joshua joining Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort, as should the Manchester Camerata's performance of The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross.
Contemporary music is as well served as ever, with a wide range of world and UK premieres. Louis Andriessen's The Hague Hacking is played here for the first time, as are the revised version of Rebecca Saunders's traces and Schnittke's Nagasaki, while Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies are also represented. As ever, the Proms are branching out, too, with an evening devoted to seventy-five years of the MGM musicals with Sir Thomas Allen and Kim Criswell and a special day celebrating the music of Bollywood.

All of Stravinsky's ballet music will be performed – perhaps an unnecessary move, since the pieces are regularly performed in both concert halls and in their original balletic settings – as will Tchaikovsky's piano concerti. Martha Argerich will perform two concerti in the same programme, and there's a slightly crazy ‘multiple pianos' day featuring a large number of pianists including the Labeque sisters. More unusually, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will make their Proms debut.

On the whole, it seems a strong season, with a much greater range of international artists than the recently-announced Edinburgh Festival. That said, it's noticeable that the BBC's own orchestras are padding out the season to an extent, particularly in August, and the famous Last Night is rather low-key, with David Robertson conducting and Sarah Connolly as the vocal soloist. As noted above, it's also disappointing that only three of Haydn's symphonies are featured in his anniversary year, and the reliance on Mahler, Shostakovich, Beethoven and Brahms symphonies is a sign of safe programming. Nevertheless, it's reassuring to see that in these difficult times for the arts, the Proms show no signs of dropping their artistic standards.

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BBC Proms in the park come to Manchester for TV and radio extravaganza

Music lovers across the North West are invited to join in the fun of a BBC Proms in the Park concert for the Last Night of the Proms, at the beautifully restored Heaton Park on Saturday 10 September at 7.30pm. The Manchester-based BBC Philharmonic tops the bill with New Zealand star soprano Hayley Westenra.

The concert will be hosted by BBC GMR's Heather Stott, and as in previous years there will be a live TV link up with the famous finale of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms from the Royal Albert Hall. Televised highlights of all five Proms in the Park will be shown as part of BBC1 and BBC2's live coverage of the Last Night of the Proms, and the entire Manchester concert will go out live on BBC GMR.

The BBC Philharmonic will be conducted by Stephen Bell, and 18 year old singing sensation Hayley Westenra will perform tracks from her latest album.

She will also sing classical favourites like Ave Maria and Puccini's O mio babbino caro. BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist, euphonium virtuoso David Childs is another star attraction on the night, and he will play his own orchestration of the Carnival of Venice. Local performers Duel, Aquarelle and Chetham's School will also perform on stage pre-concert.

The concert programme will include Shostakovich's Festival Overture, extracts from Walton's Henry V, the finale of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Flight of the Bumble Bee. After the interval the BBC Philharmonic will play extracts from Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila as well as the rousing Dambusters March by Coates.

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Doctor Who heads to the BBC Proms

Daleks will roam the Royal Albert Hall at the Doctor(Who is to feature in this year's Proms, alongside Nigel Kennedy and maypole dancing.) which will celebrate music from the popular BBC show.
Kennedy, 51, will return to the Proms for the first time in 21 years to perform Elgar's violin concerto.
The Proms will also celebrate the music of composer Vaughan Williams on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Proms director Roger Wright said the musical emphasis would be on the British Isles, with other compositions from Eastern Europe.
And he denied the presence of Doctor Who meant the world-famous music festival was being dumbed down.
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Roxette (Musician)

Roxette is a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. They enjoyed worldwide success, from the late 1980s until the mid 1990s, gaining nineteen UK Top 40 hits and four US #1 singles with, "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride". Two further singles "Dangerous" and "Fading Like a Flower" hit #2.
After a hiatus in the mid-1990s, their popularity continued in other territories such as Europe and South America, where they earned various Gold and Platinum awards until the beginning of the new millennium. The duo took an extended hiatus from recording and touring, when in 2002, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in 8 years, in 2009, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour.
Their songs continue to receive radio airplay. "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen to Your Heart" have both recently received awards from BMI, with both songs achieving four million radio plays. They have sold an estimated 45 million albums and 25 million singles worldwide, with over 3.5 million record sales in the United States, achieving platinum for Joyride and Look Sharp! there.

Nicholas Kenyon(1996-2007)Controller

Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon CBE (born 23 February 1951 in Cheshire) is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms 1996-2007 following which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts centre
Education and career:
After attending St Bede's College, Manchester, and playing bassoon with Stockport Youth Orchestra,[citation needed] Kenyon studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating he worked for the English Bach Festival, and as a freelance writer on music. From 1979 to 1982 he was a music critic for The New Yorker. On returning to the UK he became music critic for The Times, then Chief Music Critic of The Observer. He was also Music Editor of The Listener and Editor of the journal Early Music. In 1992 he was appointed Controller, BBC Radio 3 and was appointed Director of the BBC Proms from the 1996 season. In 2000 his title changed to Controller BBC Proms, Live Events and Television Classical Music. In February 2007 he was announced as the Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in the City of London, in succession to Sir John Tusa.
Kenyon is a member of the Board of English National Opera, a Governor of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a Trustee of the Dartington Hall Trust, and a patron of Spode Music Week. He is also a Fellow of The Radio Academy .
In the 2001 New Year Honours he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music and millennium broadcasting. He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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Roger Wright

Roger Wright (born 1956, Manchester) is an English radio administrator and arts administrator. He is currently the Controller of BBC Radio 3 and Director of The Proms.
Wright was educated at Chetham's School, Manchester, and played the cello as a youth. He studied music at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and earned a B.Mus. in 1977. On graduation, he took a sabbatical year, 1977-78, as the elected President of the Student Union.
From 1978 to 1987, Wright worked at the British Music Information Centre, as librarian and manager, then as director. He served as a senior producer for the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1987 to 1989. He became the artistic administrator of The Cleveland Orchestra in 1989. He left his Cleveland post in 1992 for Deutsche Grammophon (DG), where he became an executive director and vice-president, and worked there until 1997.
In March 1997, Wright took up the newly created BBC post of Head of Classical Music, in charge of the BBC's orchestras, choirs, and bands. In 1998, he became Controller of Radio 3. During his Radio 3 tenure he raised the profile of jazz and world music, causing controversy among listeners. Other Radio 3 programming changes such as a perceived diminution of live music broadcasts have also attracted controversy. Wright was named Director of the BBC Proms in April 2007[9] and formally took up the post in October 2007, succeeding Nicholas Kenyon.
In 2002, Wright was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Royal Holloway College. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the Radio Academy. His publications include the volume New Music 1989, in collaboration with Michael Finnissy.
Wright and his wife Rosie, a yoga teacher, have two children.
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Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen (June 6, 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1959.

Family and early life:

Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) and Caecilia Andriessen (1931-), and nephew of Willem Andriessen (1887-1964).

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin. His wife was Jeanette Yanikian, a guitarist (1935-2008). They were a couple for over 40 years, and they got married in 1996.

Style and notable works

Andriessen's early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post war serialism (Series, 1958), pastiche (Anachronie I, 1966-67), and tape (Il Duce, 1973). His reaction to what he perceived as the conservatism of much of the Dutch contemporary music scene quickly moved him to form a radically alternative musical aesthetic of his own. Since the early 1970s he has refused to write for conventional symphony orchestras and has instead opted to write for his own idiosyncratic instrumental combinations, which often retain some traditional orchestral instruments alongside electric guitars, electric basses, and congas.

Andriessen's mature music combines the influences of Igor Stravinsky, jazz and American minimalism. His harmonic writing eschews the consonant modality of much minimalism, preferring post war European dissonance, often crystallised into large blocks of sound. Large scale pieces such as 'Republic' (1972-76), for example, are influenced by the energy of the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton and the repetitive procedures of Steve Reich, both combined with bright, clashing dissonances. Andriessen's music is thus anti-Germanic and anti-Romantic, and marks a departure from post war European serialism and its offshoots. He has also played a role in providing alternatives to traditional performance practice techniques, often specifying forceful, rhythmic articulations, and amplified, non-vibrato, singing.

Karlheinz Stockhausen 08

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German,widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music". He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory in serial composition.

He was educated at the Hochschule and the University of Cologne, and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn.

One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular-music artists.

Early life:

Stockhausen was born in the Burg Mödrath, the so-called castle of the village of Mödrath, which served at the time as the maternity home of the Bergheim Kreis. His father was a schoolteacher, and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight. She played the piano and accompanied her own singing but, after three pregnancies in as many years, experienced a mental breakdown and was institutionalized in December 1932, followed a few months later by the death of her younger son, Hermann.

From the age of seven, Stockhausen grew up in Altenberg, where he received his first piano lessons from the Protestant organist of the Altenberg Cathedral, Franz-Josef Kloth. His father, Simon Stockhausen, remarried in 1938 and with his new wife, Luzia, had two daughters. Because his relationship with his new stepmother was less than happy, in January 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers' training college in Xanten, where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin. According to one source, as a young teenager he worked as a cobbler .

In 1941 or 1942, he learned that his mother had died, ostensibly from leukemia, although everyone at the same hospital had supposedly died of the same disease. It was generally understood that she had been a victim of the Nazi policy of killing "useless eaters".

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George Frideric Handel

He was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. Handel grew up in Germany and was trained in Italy, but settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727

His works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Early life:

Handel was born in Halle.His father, Georg Händel, 63 when his son was born, was an eminent barber-surgeon who also served as surgeon to the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

According to John Mainwaring, his first biographer, "Handel had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbad him to meddle with any musical instrument but Handel found means to get a little clavichord privately convey'd to a room at the top of the house. To this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep". At an early age Handel became a skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.

In 1702, following his father's wishes, Handel began the study of law at the University of Halle and also succeeded in getting an appointment as the organist at the local protestant cathedral. After a year Handel seems to have been very unsatisfied and in 1703, he moved to Hamburg, accepting a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the opera house. There, he met Johann Mattheson, Christoph Graupner and Reinhard Keiser. His first two operas, Almira and Nero, were produced in 1705. He produced two other early operas, Daphne and Florindo, in 1708. It is unclear if Handel directed these latter performances himself.

In 1710, Handel became Kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hanover, who would become King George I of Great Britain in 1714. He visited Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and her husband in Düsseldorf on his way to London in 1710.

"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived.

I would bare my head and kneel at his grave"

-- L.v. Beethoven (1824)

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