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Performance TitleBBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 41: JBBC Concert Orchestra and James McVinnie
Performance Date6 September 2021
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJames McVinnie - organ
Orchestra or BandBBC Concert Orchestra
ConductorsAnna-Maria Helsing
Set List'Mad Rush', P Glass,
'A Globe Itself Infolding', S Moussa
Performance NotesIn 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 Hall’s magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

James McVinnie is a chameleon among organists who has held titles at Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, yet also worked with Philip Glass and The National’s Bryce Dessner.

In a Prom that explores the organ in a contemporary light, he navigates the time-warping oscillations of Philip Glass’s Minimalist Mad Rush, before giving the UK premiere of Canadian composer Samy Moussa’s A Globe Itself Infolding with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing.

UK premiere of 'A Globe Itself Infolding', Samy Moussa.

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 MaterialProspectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/)
Ticket Prices£7.12-£
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2021/46BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 41: JBBC Concert Orchestra and James McVinnie6 September 2021
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12261BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2021 - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season46
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23518McVinnie; James (13 January 1983); English organist and pianist
DS/UK/1151British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Concert Orchestra; 1931-; British orchestra
DS/UK/23519Helsing; Anna-Maria (17 October 1971); Finnish conductor
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