| Orchestra or Band | The Dankworth Sextet:
Guy Barker - trumpet,
Tim Garland - saxophone,
Mark Nightingale - trombone,
John Horler - piano,
Malcolm Creese - bass,
Allan Ganley - drums
BBC Big Band,
BBC Concert Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Overture 'Strike Up the Band'', Gershwin, arr. John Dankworth,
'Belleville Blue', Dankworth,
Shakespeare Fantasia:
'All the World's a Stage (As You Like It),
'If Music be the Food of Love (Twelfth Night)', John Dankworth,
'O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? (Twelfth Night)', Arthur Young,
'You Spotted Snakes (A Midsummer Night's Dream)', John Dankworth,
'It Was a Lover and his Lass (As You Like It)', Arthur Young,
'Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (Cymbeline)', John Dankworth,
'Take All My Loves (Sonnet No.40)', Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn,
'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet No.18)', John Dankworth,
'Dunsinane Blues (after Macbeth)', John Dankworth,,
'Our Revels Now are Ended (The Tempest)', John Dankworth
'What the Dickens! - suite (excerpts)', John Dankworth,
'Caravan', Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol
INTERVAL
'Double Vision', (John Dankworth, BBC Big Band),
'Zodiac Variations (excerpts)', John Dankworth,
'Biding My Time', Gershwin,
'St. Louis Blues', W C Handy,
'I've Got a Crush on You', Gershwin,
'Fine and Mellow', Holiday,
'Willow Weep for Me', Ronell,
Four Songs, Ellington:
'I'm Beginning to See the Light',
'Don't You Know I Care',
'Creole Love Call',
'It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)' |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/1997/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/1997/113),
Merchandise Catalogue (RAHE/6/1997/24A),
Mini Proms Guide (RAHE/6/1997/24B-C),
Posters (RAHE/2/1997/2) |