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I was at a previous one in 2007
Great fun
Steve
BBC Proms: Film Music Night
BBC4 ... Friday ... 12th August 2011 ... 7.30-9.40pm
Broadcast live on BBC Radio3 from 7.00pm
A Musical Feast for Film Fans …
This is real treat for cineastes in this BBC Film Music Prom, broadcast on BBC4 and BBC Radio3, performed by the superb BBC Concert Orchestra, with young British virtuoso violin soloist Chloe Hanslip ... conductor Keith Lockhart promises 'a really serious look at some truly great film scores, with a focus on the great British film composers'. So there’s a suite by William Walton from Laurence Olivier’s Henry V, The BBC Proms includes a very special tribute to John Barry ... a 10 minute James Bond medley and the love theme from Out of Africa.
Hollywood gets a look in too, with composers John Williams’ Star Wars, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter ... Bernard Herrmann’s Citizen Kane, North By North West and Psycho (shower scene music) and Ennio Morricone’s Cinema Paradiso theme.
From the terror of the Psycho shower scene and the thrill of Star Wars to the heartbreaking beauty of Cinema Paradiso, this BBC Prom also includes a very special tribute to the brilliant John Barry.
BBC Proms Film Night ... Programme order ...
Bernard Herrmann ...
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Citizen Kane, North by Northwest and Psycho (18 mins)
Ennio Morricone ... Cinema Paradiso ... theme (7 mins)
William Walton ... Henry V - suite (arr. Muir Mathieson) (21 mins)
John Williams ... Star Wars, Schindler's List and Harry Potter (14 mins)
Jonny Greenwood ... Norwegian Wood - suite (arr. Robert Ziegler) (10 mins)
BBC Commission ... World Premiere
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett ... Murder on the Orient Express - suite (8 mins)
John Barry special tribute ...
Music from the James Bond films (10 mins)
Out of Africa - Love Theme (7 mins)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Chlo� Hanslip violin
Keith Lockhart conductor
Broadcast on BBC4 7.30-9.40pm
Broadcast live on BBC Radio3 from 7pm
The BBC Proms Film Music Night is presented by Charles Hazlewood and Samira Ahmed.
Sources: Radio Times/BBC Proms/BBC Programmes/DigiGuide
This looks like a being an absolutely superb film music concert ...
very much looking forward to this special BBC Proms Film Music Night ... in particular the special tribute to the brilliant musical genius of John Barry.
Emma
Last edited by mrs_emma_peel; 05-08-11 at 04:57 PM.
I was at a previous one in 2007
Great fun
Steve
Thanks for the heads up Mrs. P., I would have sooner they replaced the James Bond themes with more film music or something from his 60s tv series. I think John Barry was a bit fed up of as just the Bond Music man.
Paul
Enjoyed that, but why did they follow it up with Beyonce, strange scheduling. You have to switch on your radio for the second prom of the night which is the Spaghetti Western Orchestra, silly Auntie.
Spaghetti Western Orchestra....this will be broadcast on BBC4 tv next Friday
Just came back from this Prom. A lot of fun if a rather strange mix of music. As we were in the circle I'm looking forward to watching the TV recording to see what we might have missed in close-up!
Are boasting or making us country bumpkins feel jealous?Originally Posted by didi-5
Years ago, a friend of mine told me his opera singer wife was going to be singing at the Last Night of the Proms and told me not to miss her. She was quite a well known(ish) black artist called Sandra Brown who worked, we were told, mostly in Italy. She was going to sing one of the major solo spots.
I told ALL my friends and everybody who knew my pal and Sandra duly told ALL their friends.
On the night her solo spot was cut by the BBC.
I am looking forward to that. There's a link to their website in this post that I made a while ago .....
link: http://filmdope.com/forums/fi...orchestra.html
I watched the replay on BBC4. Like the curate's egg, it was good in parts. It would be difficult to please everyone all of the time with such a wide selection, I suppose.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Film Night concert ... with just a one or two or three small provisors ... I wasn't too keen on the over-long rather tuneless Jonny Greenwood piece ... and thought a suite of the film music of Ron Goodwin (Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain and Miss Marple theme) would have been much more preferable and would have further enhanced a fine concert.
The tribute to John Barry was absolutely superb ... the difficult re-creation of the On Her Majesty's Secret Service main theme was very well done ... but it should have been followed immediately by the incredibly beautiful ... We Have All The Time In The World ... and the sumptuous You Only Live Twice main theme rather than the Space theme ... I loved the Goldfinger and Casino Royale themes ... the entire tribute could have been at least 5 minutes longer.
I loved the opening Bernard Herrmann section, the re-creation of the Psycho soundtrack was brilliantly done. I'd have liked to have heard the music from Hitchcock's superb North By North West which was billed in the programme but was omitted ... the Henry V section was marvellous with wonderful key readings delivered with temendous style by actor Rory Kinnear.
The BBC Concert Orchestra, with Keith Lockhard conducting, delivered the music with thundering power and quiet sensitivity ... great style, verve and panache ... and violinist Chlo� Hanslip's playing of the main theme from John Williams' Schindler's List was movingly equisite.
A very fine concert.
Emma
Last edited by mrs_emma_peel; 13-08-11 at 09:57 PM.
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