John Wilson and his orchestra take us back to where it all began in a concert of classic songs and scores from the Warner Brothers studios. The programme includes music by Korngold, Loewe and Steiner, including numbers from My Fair Lady and The Sea Hawk.
Ten years since their first Proms appearance together, John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra present an evening of sumptuous technicoloured scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. With music from films including The Sea Hawk, The Constant Nymph, Calamity Jane, A Streetcar Named Desire and Harry Potter.
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PROGRAM
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – The Sea Hawk
Harry Warren – We're in the money
Sigmund Romberg – The Desert song
Max Steiner – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dimitri Tiomkin – The Old Man and the Sea
Meredith Willson – Seventy-Six Trombones
Harold Arlen – Blues in the Night
Bronislau Kaper – Auntie Mame
Frederick Loewe – My Fair Lady (excerpts)
Max Steiner – Now, Voyager (excerpts)
Sammy Fain – The Deadwood Stage (from Calamity Jane) (Doris Day tribute)
Jule Styne – It's Magic
Alex North – A Streetcar Named Desire (excerpts)
Frederick Loewe – Camelot (excerpts)
Henry Mancini – The Days of Wine and Roses
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Tomorrow
Frederick Loewe – I Could Have Danced All Night (from My Fair Lady)
John Williams – Harry Potter Suite- Harry’s Wondrous World