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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 29 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Performance Date4 August 2012
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersCynthia Millar - ondes martenot,
Joanna MacGregor - piano
Orchestra or BandNational Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'Tuning Up', Varese,
'Gait', Nico Muhly
INTERVAL
'Turangaila Symphony, Messiaen,
'HandsFree', Anna Meredith
Performance NotesMessiaen’s ecstatic, Eastern-influenced celebration of love is framed by a BBC commission from one of America’s rising talents and Anna Meredith’s acclaimed tour de force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first performed earlier this year by NYO members and commissioned for the PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 programme as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

Varèse’s Tuning Up is a tongue-in-cheek parody based on the familiar orchestral strains usually heard on stage only before the conductor arrives.

Proms premiere of Varese's 'Tuning Up' and Meredith's 'ondes martenot'.
BBC commission and London premiere of Muhly's 'Gait'.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/87),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/87BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 29 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain4 August 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/949National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO); 1947-; British orchestra
DS/UK/952Millar; Cynthia (fl 1980s-); English Ondes Martenot player
DS/UK/954MacGregor; Joanna (1959-); OBE; British pianist
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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