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BBC Proms: 2016: Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

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18/08/2016

Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

2016

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2016, Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

The BBC Concert Orchestra celebrates Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, BBC Concert Orchestra in a Prom celebrating Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen, including works by Walton and Bernstein.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart celebrate music from stage and screen inspired by Shakespeare's plays, including Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, based on Romeo and Juliet, and selections from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and Richard Rodgers's The Boys from Syracuse.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Penny Gore.

Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude to Richard III 
Finzi: Suite from Love's Labour's Lost
Sullivan: Overture to Act IV of The Tempest, Op 1 
Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare 
Joby Talbot: "Springtime Dance" from The Winter's Tale 

8.20pm INTERVAL
Proms Extra: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington looks at the depiction of actors and acting as a metaphor in Shakespeare's plays. Dr Sarah Dillon hosts the recording with an audience at Imperial College Union.

8.40pm 
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 

The Bard on Broadway
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate - Another Openin', Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the Life that Late I Led?; So In Love 

Rodgers/Hart: The Boys from Syracuse - Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can't Be Love 

Porter: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (Kiss Me, Kate) 

Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare's characters as reflected on stage and screen - with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.


PROMS EXTRA: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting
Michael Pennington is a leading Shakespeare actor who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with director Michael Bogdanov and has performed at theatres across the world. He is the author of several books about Shakespeare's plays - the most recent of which is King Lear in Brooklyn. He also performs a solo Shakespeare show Sweet William. He is interviewed by Dr Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge and one of the BBC and AHRC's New Generation Thinkers. Part of a series of discussions in which leading figures explore the way Shakespeare has depicted their profession in his plays.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

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