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THURSDAY 14 AUGUST
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5.15pm - 6pm: Proms Intro Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra talk to the Controller of BBC Radio 3 and Director of the Proms, Roger Wright.
Prom 38: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
- Date Thursday 14 August 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c9.05pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7-£44 price band B or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Four. Highlights also recorded for broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD on 16 August. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, formed in collaboration with the Palestinian philosopher Edward Said, began life in 1999 as a one-off experiment to bring Arab and Israeli musicians together. Since then it has met in the summers to continue its work - both musical and social.
While the symbolic effect of joining people on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict remains potent, the orchestra has been in continual artistic development. 'The "exotic" element, if you like,' says Barenboim, 'of an orchestra of Israelis and Arabs performing European music has lessened. This is a positive thing: the orchestra is now judged purely on musical terms.'
- Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello (21 mins)
- Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op.31 (21 mins)
- Interval
- Brahms Symphony No.4 (42 mins)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
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Prom 39: Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
- Date Thursday 14 August 2008
- Time 10.15pm - 11.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£15 price band D or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Written during the First World War, 'to be read, played and danced', L'histoire du soldat ('The Soldier's Tale') presents the Faustian tale of a soldier who is tricked by the Devil into trading his fiddle for a book containing the secret of wealth.
Boulez's ... explosante-fixe ... - from which Mémoriale is derived - was written to commemorate the death of Stravinsky in 1971. The Mémoriale realisation (1985) was prompted by the death of Lawrence Beauregard, flautist of Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain.
- Pierre Boulez Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... Originel) (6mins)
- Stravinsky L'histoire du soldat (60 mins)
There will be no interval
Patrice Chéreau narrator
Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
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