The Sphinx Academy
The debut of a new weekly series on PT: Transformations™. We'll look at moments, large and small, when music transforms our lives. This week, we'll meet some of the young musicians at the 2010 Sphinx Performance Academy in Chicago, designed to help up-and-coming African-American and Latino string players. Plus, of all the wacky audience-participation traditions at the Proms in London, none tops the British Sea Songs, by Henry Wood. It's the Rocky Horror Picture Show of classical music, with the audience joining in on many levels throughout the piece. We'll hear the audience humming, whistling, singing, crying, and honking along from the 2010 Proms in London.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
William Walton: March for a History of the English Speaking Peoples
The English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel, conductor
Richard Wagner: Overture to the Flying Dutchman
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondino for Wind Octet
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Niccolo Paganini: Moto Perpetuo
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Ambroise Thomas: Connais-tu le Pays, from Mignon
Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Georges Bizet: Excerpts from L'Arlesienne Suites Nos. 1 and 2
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Hour 2
Giuseppe Verdi: Celeste Aida
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, conductor
Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque in G-flat, Op. 101, No. 7
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Richard Wagner: Kaisermarsch
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Paul Daniel, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Transformations: Students from the Sphinx Performance Academy
Ludwig van Beethoven: First movement from String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4
The Reaction String Quartet
Sphinx Performance Academy, Chicago
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