| Main Performers | Jeneba Kanneh-Mason - piano |
| Set List | 'Hiawathas Wedding Feast Overture', S Coleridge-Taylor,
'African Suite', Sowande,
'Piano Concerto in One Movement', Price,
'Symphony in A minor', S Coleridge-Taylor |
| Performance Notes | In 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 52 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Halls magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylors overture to his popular cantata based on the tale of a Native American leader quotes the spiritual Nobody knows the trouble Ive seen. There are further meetings of African and European musical styles in Nigerian composer Fela Sowandes African Suite and the piano concerto by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to win renown in America. By contrast, Coleridge-Taylors Symphony, written as a 20-year old student of Stanford at Londons Royal College of Music, reveals the influence of his hero, Dvorak.
The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| Related Archival Material | Prospectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/32),
Digital Photographs |