direct from the Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Robin Stapleton conducts the Halle Orchestra leaders MARTIN MILNER and PAN HON LEE
Friday Night's Star Singers Susan Bullock
John Lawrenson with the Blackpool Festival Chorus choirmaster JOHN BURN
Introduced by Robin Boyle
Friday Night makes its annual visit to Blackpool's Festival
Week and appropriately enough features Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. Also in the programme, a selection from The Vagabond King and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, as well as music from Carmen. Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (Given in association with the Blackpool Festival 1987)
(Susan Bullock appears by permission of the English National Opera)
8.20-8.40*
Welcome to Wallington:
Michael Meech visits one of Northumberland's best-loved stately homes.