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Prom 25: Zappa - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

31/07/2013

2013

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The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon perform music by Frank Zappa, Nancarrow and Glass

Prom featuring the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon. Nancarrow: Study No 7 for player piano. Glass: Symphony No 10. Zappa, orch Ali N Askin: The Adventures of Greggery Peccary.

The Aurora Orchestra under conductor Nicholas Collon at this summer's BBC Proms, with an arrangement for orchestra of Conlon Nancarrow's Study for Player Piano No. 7, followed by the UK premiere of Philip Glass's Symphony No 10. Finally, the first Proms performance of Frank Zappa's satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with narrator Mitch Benn and baritone Christopher Purves.
Presented by Andrew McGregor


Nancarrow, arr. Y. E. Mikhashoff: Study for Player Piano No. 7
Glass: Symphony No. 10 (UK premiere)
Zappa, orch Ali N. Askin: The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

Mitch Benn (narrator)
Christopher Purves (baritone)
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2013

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