September 2024
For information
about past and upcoming episodes
of Friday Night is
Music Night on BBC
Radio 3 you can follow this link:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xmxc/episodes/player
It will show
previous episodes which are still
available for replay via BBC
Sounds (for up to 30 days after
broadcast).
Broadcast:
27 September 2024
Celebrating Ernest
Tomlinson:
Helen Harrison conducts the BBC
Concert Orchestra in music by
light music master and Ivor
Novello winner Ernest Tomlinson
in celebration of his centenary.
Harpist Anne Denholm and flautist
Ileana Ruhemann also feature in
music by Mozart, John Williams
and Hoagy Carmichael. Recorded in
July at Fairfield Halls, Croydon.
Presented by Clare Teal.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022zqd
Upcoming
episodes:
4th
October 2024 at 7.30pm
from Snape Maltings
Soprano Eleanor Dennis
and bassoonist John McDougall are
soloists with the BBC Concert
Orchestra and conductor John
Andrews in a concert recorded in
August at the Maltings, Snape.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00236mf
11th
October 2024 at 7.30pm
Once again, Friday Night is Music
Night!
Another chance to hear the Radio
3 debut of the popular BBC radio
programme that promises music for
everyone. With Katie Derham, the
BBC Concert Orchestra and
Anna-Maria Helsing.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xmx7
18th
October 2024 at 7.30pm
The Great Outdoors
Singers Louise Dearman and Graham
Bickley join conductor Richard
Balcombe and the BBC Concert
Orchestra in music celebrating
the great outdoors. Presented by
Petroc Trelawny.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xvzs
25th
October 2024 at 7.30pm
On Tour in China
Another chance to hear Chief
Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing and
the BBC Concert Orchestra in the
Shenzhen Concert Hall, on tour in
China last New Year. They are
joined by Chinese soprano Ying
Huang, in an eclectic mix of
music from James Bond to Johann
Strauss II. Presented by Petroc
Trelawny. First broadcast in
April.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y2q7
September 2024
The Story
of Light Music
Sunday
22nd September 2024 at 7:15pm on
BBC Radio 3
Marking the
centenary of composer Ernest
Tomlinsons birth (whose 'Little
Serenade' 1955 - is
one of the treasures of British
light music) and exploring the
sound-world of pioneering light
composers Eric Coates, Robert
Farnon, Frederic Curzon, Ronald
Binge, Peter Hope and others
presenter and singer
Catherine Bott takes a look at
what light music means today and
its deep legacy for radio,
television and film scores as
well as its re-emergence on
digital platforms like Tik Tok.
Contributors include composer
Peter Hope, conductor John
Wilson, Ernest Tomlinson's
daughter Hilary Ashton, modern
day light music composer Thomas
Hewitt-Jones and organist Richard
Hills.
The programnme is
available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002383y
September 2024
BBC Proms
Sunday 1st
September at 1.00 pm
On Radio 3 there
was a repeat of a programme,
first broadcast in March, looking
at Henry Mancini's life and
career including archive
interviews.
Monday 2nd
September at 7.30 pm
BBC Proms
presented Ultra Lounge - Henry
Mancini & Beyond.
Henry Mancini was
more than one of the greatest
composers in the history of film
music. He was also one of the
most versatile musicians of his
or any time. Marking a century
since the flautist, composer and
conductors birth in Ohio,
Edwin Outwater and the BBC
Concert Orchestra celebrate the
man and his music in styles
ranging from jazz to light
classical and film music.
Among the classics
are the slinky 'Lujon'
and themes from The Pink
Panther and Peter Gunn,
joined by gems from the lounge
music and space-age pop genres
Mancini helped inspire, including
easy-going tracks by Burt
Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan
García Esquivel.
Broadcast live on
BBC Radio 3 and recorded for
broadcast on BBC Radio 2. It is
now available on BBC iPlayer for
11 months here: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022njg
Anthony Wills
August 2024
A
Centenary Celebration - Three
Musical Luminaries
Trevor Duncan, Ernest Tomlinson
and Angela Morley
On Bank Holiday
Monday, August 26th 2024 Serenade
Radio presented a
special feature to commemorate
the centenaries of these famous
composers, who made a great
contribution to world of British
Light Music in the years after
World War Two.
Compiled and
introduced by André Leon and
produced by Tony Clayden, the
programme features some of the
trio's most prominent
compositions.
You can catch up
on our LLMMG streaming
service.
August 2024
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August 2024
THE BIG
INTERVIEW - John Wilson
There is a new
item in the Articles section of
the website reproducing an in-depth interview
with John Wilson by George Hall
which appeared in 'The Stage'
during June.
June 2024
Mark
Fitz-Gerald Orchestra
concert at The British Home
A report on this
event can be found in the Reports
section of the website - here
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