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Last Night of the Proms, first night of football

September 10, 2020 at 9:39 am Leave a comment

West Ham United’s opening game of the 2020/21 season, originally scheduled to take place on Saturday at 3pm, has been moved to an 8pm kick off. The match will now collide with the famous Last Night of the Proms which is also going to be broadcasted on Saturday, 12 September, at 8pm from the Royal Albert Hall. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, both events will take place without spectators present at the respective venues.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska makes her Last Night debut along with South-African soprano Golda Schultz in a concert without flag-waving and singing “Rule, Britannia” and “Land of Hope and Glory” at the Royal Albert Hall. It should be instead a musical feast in countless living rooms across the country and around the world. In a similar way the London Stadium will be without fans to sing along “Bubbles” when the teams step onto the lawn in front of empty seats in the ground, but the game of course will be screened on TV.

But – unlike the above mentioned debuts in the Royal Albert Hall – I fear there will be no new players, let alone stars, in the West Ham team on Saturday. The club has failed to make any notable signing so far in this transfer window, but instead has sold bright prospect Grady Diangana to West Brom.

Let’s hope that West Ham will already have got a good result when I am going to switch from football to the Royal Albert Hall to sing along when the Last Night’s second part of the programme will start.

PROGRAMME of the LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2020

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (Overture) – ‘Deh vieni, non tardar’

Richard Strauss
Morgen!

Andrea Tarrodi
Solus
BBC commission: world premiere

Stephen Sondheim
Night Waltzes (A Little Night Music) – ‘The Glamorous Life’

Jean Sibelius
Impromptu for String Orchestra, op. 5

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
The Skylark
(arr. Stephan Koncz)

Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
i. The Saucy Arethusa ii. Tom Bowling iii. Jack’s the Lad iv. Sequence of sea songs from around the UK v. See, the conqu’ring hero comes vi. Rule, Britannia!

Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major – ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
(arr. Anne Dudley)

Richard Rodgers
Carousel – ‘You’ll never walk alone’

Hubert Parry
Jerusalem
(arr. Errollyn Wallen)

Unknown
The National Anthem
(arr. Britten)

Golda Schultz soprano
Lisa Batiashvili violin
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor

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