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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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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.
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.
Musicians
Musicians who participated at the Night of the Proms:
Orchestra: Il Novecento (since 1991)
Conductor: Robert Groslot (since 1991)
Choir: Fine Fleur (1995-2007 & 2009); Harlem Gospel Choir (2008)
Roxette (2002 (Cancelled) and 2009)
Jenifer (2006)
Howard Jones (2000)
Katona Twins (2009)
Mark King (Level 42) (1998)
Dani Klein (Vaya Con Dios) (1996)
Peter Koelewijn (1998)
De Kreuners (2003)
Roby Lakatos (2007)
Thé Lau (2005)
Cyndi Lauper (2004)
Jo Lemaire (1997)
Gérard Lenorman (2001, 2004 & 2009)
Huey Lewis (2003)
Live (2008)
Manfred Mann & Chris Thompson (2005)
Wayne Marshall (1997)
Mimie Mathy (2006)
Orchestra: Il Novecento (since 1991)
Conductor: Robert Groslot (since 1991)
Choir: Fine Fleur (1995-2007 & 2009); Harlem Gospel Choir (2008)
Roxette (2002 (Cancelled) and 2009)
Jenifer (2006)
Howard Jones (2000)
Katona Twins (2009)
Mark King (Level 42) (1998)
Dani Klein (Vaya Con Dios) (1996)
Peter Koelewijn (1998)
De Kreuners (2003)
Roby Lakatos (2007)
Thé Lau (2005)
Cyndi Lauper (2004)
Jo Lemaire (1997)
Gérard Lenorman (2001, 2004 & 2009)
Huey Lewis (2003)
Live (2008)
Manfred Mann & Chris Thompson (2005)
Wayne Marshall (1997)
Mimie Mathy (2006)
Monday, February 8, 2010
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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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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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
BBC Electric Proms
The BBC Electric Proms is a music festival run by the BBC held during October in London since 2006.
The name is taken from The Proms a classical music festival running since 1895 and maintains a few traditions from its counterpart such as the final night culminating in an interpretation of "Land of Hope and Glory". The musical performances at the festival typically involve Indie rock bands incorporating instruments outside of their usual arrangement, most commonly in the form of collaborations with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Primarily the festival's headline acts play at The Roundhouse in Camden but events, which include a programme of film, are not limited to this venue. For example, acoustic events take place at Cecil Sharp House. In 2008 in acknowledgment of its status as European Capital of Culture, events were be staged in both Liverpool and London.
The name is taken from The Proms a classical music festival running since 1895 and maintains a few traditions from its counterpart such as the final night culminating in an interpretation of "Land of Hope and Glory". The musical performances at the festival typically involve Indie rock bands incorporating instruments outside of their usual arrangement, most commonly in the form of collaborations with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Primarily the festival's headline acts play at The Roundhouse in Camden but events, which include a programme of film, are not limited to this venue. For example, acoustic events take place at Cecil Sharp House. In 2008 in acknowledgment of its status as European Capital of Culture, events were be staged in both Liverpool and London.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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.
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