Humphrey Carpenter explores the art of timing fireworks to music in open-air concerts. He also talks to members of the Vienna Boys' Choir. Music includes Bach's motet Singet dem Herm sung by the Stockholm Bach Choir, conductor Nikolaus Hamoncourt , at 5.45; Gershwin's The Man I Love played by pianist Joanna MacGregor after 6.00; and Hoist's A Somerset Rhapsody played by the LSO, conductor Richard Hickox , at 6.40.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY