BBC Proms 2020

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BBC Proms: John Wilson and his Orchestra perform hits from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

BBC Proms: The John Wilson Orchestra presents a programme of Golden Age film music, with scores from Hollywood legends such as Bernard Herrmann, Erich Korngold and Miklós Rózsa.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. This evening's concert, from 2013, features Proms favourites John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of classic Hollywood film scores.

Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman’s ‘Street Scene’, from the 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire, contrasts with the music of Jewish émigrés Erich Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, with suites from Korngold’s swashbuckling score for Robin Hood, Steiner’s nostalgic music for Casablanca and Waxman’s brooding score for A Place in the Sun – all of them Academy Award-winners – making for a red-carpet event.

Presented by Georgia Mann

7.30pm
Newman: Street Scene
Kaper: Confetti
Raskin: Laura - New Suite
Herrmann: Psycho Suite
Herrmann: Salammbo Aria (Citizen Kane)
Korngold: Robin Hood - Suite

c.8:20pm Interval 

c.8:35pm
Moross: The Big Country
Steiner: Casablanca - Suite
Various: Main Title - Song Medley
Waxman: A Place in the Sun
Bradley: Tom and Jerry at MGM
Rózsa: Ben-Hur - Suite
Waxman: Taras Bulba - The Ride of the Cossacks

Venera Gimadieva (soprano)
Matthew Ford (vocalist)
Jane Monheit (vocalist)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2013, 26 August)

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