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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 36 - Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello
Performance Date9 August 2012
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time22:30
Main PerformersSophie Bevan,
Toby Spence - vocals
Orchestra or BandHalle Orchestra
ConductorsSir Mark Elder
Set List'Keep The Home Fires Burning',
'Overture' from Glamorous Night, I Novello,
'Fold Your Wings' from Glamorous Night, I Novello,
'Why Isn't It You' from 'Crest of The Wave', I Novello,
'I Can Give You The Starlight' from The Dancing Years, I Novello,
'My Life Belongs To You' from The Dancing Years, I Novello,
'Muranian Rhapsody' from Muranian Rhapsody, I Novello,
'My Dearest Dear' from The Dancing Years, I Novello,
'Someday My Heart Will Awake' from King's Rhapsody, I Novello,
'The Violin Began To Play' from King's Rhapsody, I Novello,
'Shine Through My Dreams' from Shine Through My Dreams, I Novello,
'Pray For Me', I Novello,
'Love Made The Song' from Crest of the Wave, I Novello
ENCORE
'We'll Gather Lilacs', I Novello
Performance NotesRemember such time-honoured favourites as ‘We’ll gather lilacs’? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World War plea to ‘keep the home fires burning’ in a tribute to a silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day.

Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected. Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight’s master of ceremonies, Simon Callow.

There was no interval.

Concert sequence and narration by Paul Ibell. The appearance of the Halle Orchestra was supported by Manchester Airport, Brother, PZ Cussons plc, Siemens plc.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and filmed for BBC Two television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/94),
Handbills (RAHE/6/2012/39, 44),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/94BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 36 - Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello9 August 2012
RAHE/6/2012/44BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 36 - Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello9 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/999Callow; Simon Phillip Hugh (1949-); English actor, musician, writer, theatre director
DS/UK/1000Halle; 1858-; English symphony orchestra
DS/UK/919Elder; Sir; Mark Philip (1947-); CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/1002Bevan; Sophie (1983); MBE; British soprano singer
DS/UK/1003Spence; Toby (1969-); English tenor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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