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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 61: Chineke! Perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Performance Date2 September 2022
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersNicole Cabell,
Raehann Bryce-Davis,
Zwakele Tshabalala,
Ryan Speedo Green - vocals
Orchestra or BandChineke! Orchestra
ChoirsChineke! Voices
ConductorsKevin John Edusei
Set List'Lilacs’, Walker
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.9 in D Minor - Choral’, Beethoven
Performance NotesPraised for the ‘special electricity’ of its 2021 Proms performance, the Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra – returns to tackle one of the greats of the concert repertoire: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

The orchestra is joined by newly formed sister ensemble Chineke! Voices – which makes its Proms debut – as well as soloists including Grammy-winning American bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green and former BBC Cardiff Singer of the World winner Nicole Cabell.

The concert opens with music by centenary composer George Walker – the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Walker’s Lilacs, which won him the award, is a setting of Walt Whitman and sees the composer at his most painterly and sensuous.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ ),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/ttuqgfny3w9h-tpjxct
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/86BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 61: Chineke! Perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony 2 September 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4979Cabell; Nicole (1977-); American opera singer
DS/UK/21557Chineke!; 2015-; European Orchestra
DS/UK/21620Edusei; Kevin John (fl 2014-); German conductor
DS/UK/24046Tshabalala; Zwakele; South African tenor
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