BBC Proms 2021

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BBC Proms: 2021: Chineke! Orchestra

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Chineke! Orchestra

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Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

Live at the BBC Proms: Kalena Bovell conducts the Chineke! Orchestra in Coleridge-Taylor's Symphony in A minor and, with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Florence Price's Piano Concerto.

Live at BBC Proms:  Chineke! Orchestra. Britain’s only majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra with conductor Kalena Bovell and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason in Florence Price's Piano Concerto and Coleridge-Taylor's Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast – overture 
Fela Sowande: African Suite 
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement

at approx 8.30pm 
INTERVAL Catherine Carr joins Petroc to talk about the range of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's musical output, from chamber music to opera. 

c. 8.55pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Chineke! Orchestra, Kalena Bovell (conductor)

The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overture to his popular cantata based on the tale of a Native American leader quotes the spiritual ‘Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen’. There are further meetings of African and European musical styles in Nigerian composer Fela Sowande’s African Suite and the piano concerto by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to win renown in America. By contrast, Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphony, written as a 20-year old student of Stanford at London’s Royal College of Music, reveals the influence of his hero, Dvořák.

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