Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello

9 Aug 2012, Royal Albert Hall

22:15 Thu 9 Aug 2012 Next Event

Proms 2012 Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello

22:15 Thu 9 Aug 2012 Royal Albert Hall

Sir Mark Elder honours Ivor Novello 鈥� the tunesmith and matinee idol who dominated London鈥檚 stage musicals in the 1930s and 1940s.

Programme

- - Ivor Novello
  - A Celebration of Ivor Novello(75 mins)
  - Keep The Home Fires Burning(3 mins)
  - Glamorous Night(6 mins)overture
  - Glamorous Night(4 mins)Fold Your Wings
  - Crest Of The Wave(3 mins)Why Isn't It You
  - The Dancing Years(3 mins)I Can Give You The Starlight
  - The Dancing Years(4 mins)My Life Belongs To You
  - King's Rhapsody(2 mins)Muranian Rhapsody
  - The Dancing Years(4 mins)My Dearest Dear
  - King's Rhapsody(3 mins)Someday My Heart Will Awake
  - King's Rhapsody(4 mins)The Violin Began To Play
  - Glamorous Night(4 mins)Shine Through My Dreams
  - Pray For Me(3 mins)
  - Crest Of The Wave(3 mins)Love Made The Song
  - We'll Gather Lilacs(4 mins)

Performers

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Sir Mark Elder
conductor
conductor
Toby Spence
tenor
tenor
Simon Callow
narrator
narrator
Sophie Bevan
soprano
soprano

Composers

Ivor Novello

About this event

Remember such time-honoured favourites as 鈥榃e鈥檒l gather lilacs鈥�? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World War plea to 鈥榢eep the home fires burning鈥� in a tribute to a silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day.

Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected. Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight鈥檚 master of ceremonies, Simon Callow.

There will be no interval.

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Sophie Bevan soprano
Toby Spence tenor
Simon Callow narrator

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Sir Mark Elder conductor