麻豆社 Concert Orchestra Celebrating 60
Ken Bruce salutes the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra on their 60th anniversary - featuring an archive concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Friday Night is Music Night in 1983.
Celebrating 60 - Ken Bruce salutes the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra on their 60th anniversary. This week's featured archive concert dates from September 1983 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Radio 2's weekly live music show - Friday Night is Music Night.
1953 was a very busy music year in the 麻豆社. The previous year saw the formation of the "new" 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra - "an orchestra capable to putting over the finest light music to great effect". The following summer the 麻豆社 broadcast a series of light music concerts from the Royal Festival Hall - entitled 麻豆社 International Festival of Light Music. Then that September a new programme was commissioned specifically to show off the talents of the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Its brief was "to create a Friday-night show which would help people relax after the week's hard work and put them in the right mood for a happy weekend". It was called Friday Night Is Music Night and 59 years later it remains one of Radio 2's longest running programmes.
The 30th anniversary concert took place on 23rd September 1983 at the Fairfield Hall in Croydon - the orchestra is conducted by Kenneth Alwyn with guests Rosemary Ashe; Cynthia Glover, John Lawrenson, Robert Docker(piano) and the Band of the Grenadier Guards. The presenter is Robin Boyle and the programme includes music from the Legend of the Glass Mountain(Miklos Rozsa); Robert and Elizabeth(Ron Grainer); Oklahoma(Rodgers and Hammerstein) and songs from a what was a new show in 1983 - yet to be staged in London - Follies by Stephen Sondheim.
In this 11-part series, Ken Bruce is trawling the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra archives for some classic performances from their first 60 years.
A feast for light music fans - each week the series will broadcast a show from the orchestra archives. The series will feature archive performances from the likes of light music legends Sidney Torch; Vilem Tausky; Robert Farnon; Eric Coates; Willi Boskovsky; Stanley Black; and Ron Goodwin. Plus concert performances from Matt Monro and Dudley Moore as well as more recent collaborations with Michael Bubl茅; Lionel Richie and Peter Gabriel.
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra CB Kenneth Alwyn
High Adventure
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
Fighter Command March
(Kenneth Alwyn )
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
Tabarinage
(Docker)
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
High Adventure
(Williams)
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The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Semper Fidelis
(Sousa)
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
Vergnugungszug
(Strauss)
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Cynthia Glover, John Lawrenson
Song Of Songs
(Moya) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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Cynthia Glover, John Lawrenson
Legend Of Glass Mountain
(Nino Roto) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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Rosemary Ashe
Stage Struck
(Previn, Mercer) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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Rosemary Ashe
Woman And Man
(Millar, Grainer) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Bavarian Bugle Boy
(Simms)
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Cynthia Glover
The Nightingale and The Rose
(Rimsky-Korsakov) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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John Lawrenson
Ladies Have Such Variations
(Mozart) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Ride Of The Valkyries
(Wagner) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
Gopak
(Tchaikovsky) (Conducted by Kenneth Alwyn)
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Cynthia Glover
Il Bacio
(Arditi) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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Cynthia Glover
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
(Hammerstein/Romberg) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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John Lawrenson
John Lawrenson - Sunshine Of Your Smile
(Lillian Ray) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Rossini's Birthday Party
(Henk Van Lijnschooten)
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Rosemary Ashe
Losing My Mind
(Sondheim) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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Rosemary Ashe
The Boy From鈥�
(Sondheim/Rogers) (Ft. 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn)
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra CB: /Kenneth Alwyn
Dreaming
(Joyce) (Arr Torch)
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The Band of the Grenadier Guards
Procession Of The Nobles
(Rimsky Korsakov)
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Cynthia Glover, Rosemary Ashe, John Lawrenson
Oklahoma
(Rodgers and Hammerstein) (Ft. The John McCarthy Singers)
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麻豆社 Concert Orchestra
High Adventure
(Williams)
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Broadcast
- Fri 16 Mar 2012 20:00麻豆社 Radio 2