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Thu 18 Aug 2016

• 17:45

  Proms Extra

  Imperial College Union

  What is it like to perform Shakespeare? And how does the playwright portray the profession he knew best? Actor and director Michael Pennington discusses Shakespeare on stage.

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• 19:30

  Prom 44

  Royal Albert Hall

  The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra performs some of the best music written for Shakespeare adaptations on the stage and screen – from Joby Talbot’s ballet The Winter’s Tale to Bernstein’s West Side Story and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate.

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  The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra performs some of the best music written for Shakespeare adaptations on the stage and screen – from Joby Talbot’s ballet The Winter’s Tale to Bernstein’s West Side Story and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate.

  Programme

  • • • William Walton
      • Richard III Suite (arr. Muir Mathieson)(8 mins)
    • • Gerald Finzi
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost – suite(16 mins)
    • • Arthur Sullivan
      • The Tempest – Overture to Act 4(5 mins)
    • • William Walton
      • As You Like It – a poem for orchestra after Shakespeare(6 mins)
    • • Joby Talbot
      • Springtime Dance from The Winter's Tale(6 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Leonard Bernstein
      • Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’(24 mins)
    • • Cole Porter
      • Kiss Me Kate(19 mins)
    • • Richard Rodgers
      • The Boys from Syracuse(17 mins)

  Performers

  • Graham Bickley
  • Anna-Jane Casey
  • Sarah Eyden
  • Joseph Shovelton
  • Hannah Waddingham
  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra
  • Keith Lockhart

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  Composers

  • William Walton
  • Gerald Finzi
  • Arthur Sullivan
  • Joby Talbot
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Cole Porter
  • Richard Rodgers

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  Classical for Starters 2018-19

  
• 22:00

  Proms Extra

  Royal Albert Hall

  Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry, featuring emerging talent.

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