direct from the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Kenneth Alwyn conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra leader JOHN BRADBURY
Singers Rosemary Ashe John Boulter with the GUS Band conductor
Keith Wilkinson
Featured instrumentalist Nigel Blomiley (cello)
Charles Young Chorale Gordon Langford (piano)
Introduced by Robin Boyle
For the second visit to Nottingham's new Concert Hall, the programme opens with music from Mack and Mabel, paying tribute to the city's ice-skating stars, Torvill and Dean, who used this music in their famous medal-winning routine. Plus music from Top Hat, Rose Marie , The Carnival of the Animals,
Zigeunerleben and featuring the full company in Sidney Torch's ' visit ' to Et Rancho Grande and Gordon Langford 's impressions of The Wonderful World of Walt Disney. Also, to mark the Armistice Day celebrations, music by Elgar and a Robert
Docker arrangement of ' Roses of Picardy.'
Producer BARRY KNIGHT
(In association with John Player and Sons)
8.20-8.40* Interval
Tony Barnfield reflects on life and leisure in Nottingham and district