Special American guest conductor Skitch Henderson guides the BBC Radio Orchestra, leader MICHAEL TOMAUN , through a musical tribute to the New World, on Independence Day. Philip Martin is the soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Variations on I Got Rhythm. Plus the best of Richard Rodgers , Jerome Kern , Harold Arlen and John Philip Sousa and more Gershwin in the form of his Cuban Overture and An American in Paris
Presented by Gayle Hunnicutt Producer TIM MCDONALD
(Given at the Royal Festival Hall,
London in association with Raymond Gubbay Ltd) (R)
8.20-8.40* Interval
Mark Steyn suggests some patriotic alternatives to The Star-Spangled Banner