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25 Aug 2019, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2019 Prom 49: The Lost Words

Prom 49
Prom 49: The Lost Words
17:30 Sun 25 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall
A celebration of nature in music, inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words. The Proms features a specially written ‘spell’ by the book’s author Robert Macfarlane and live paintings from Jackie Morris.
A celebration of nature in music, inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words. The Proms features a specially written ‘spell’ by the book’s author Robert Macfarlane and live paintings from Jackie Morris.

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About This Event

We celebrate the rich musical landscape of nature in a Prom inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words, which revives disappearing words that describe the natural world.

With a brand-new ‘spell’ by the book’s author Robert Macfarlane, and live paintings from Jackie Morris, who created the original artwork, the programme includes the nightingale, quail and cuckoo calls from Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony, the Arctic bird cries of Rautavaara’s Cantus arcticus, the carefree flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, plus new commissions by Jocelyn Pook and Alissa Firsova.

A unique event for all the family.

There will be one interval

Approx. end time: 19:30

Image: Jessica Cottis © Kaupo Kikkas