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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
Performance Date15 August 2024
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersIngrid Laubrock - saxophone
James Fei - saxophone/conductor
Katherine Young - bassoon/conductor
Chris Lewis - saxophone/clarinet
Brandon Lee - trumpet
Mikaela Bennett - soprano
Orchestra or BandAaron Diehl Trio,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsIlan Volkov
Set List'Solitude; Mood Indigo; Sophisticated Lady; Caravan 13’, Ellington, arr. M. Gould,
'Zodiac Suite 40’, Mary Lou Williams (European premiere)
INTERVAL
'Composition No. 27 (+46, 59, 63, 146, 147, 151, LM) c30’, Anthony Braxton
Performance NotesIlan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke’. Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs.

The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘trans-idiomatic composer’ Anthony Braxton has established himself as a musician whose imagination recognises no bounds.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/69BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams15 August 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1139Volkov; Ilan (1976-); Israeli orchestral conductor
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