Friday 4 July, 7.30pm
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Friday Night Classics: New York, New York A Gershwin and Bernstein Gala
Saturday 12 July, 7.30pm Warwick Castle
Warwick Castle 1,100th Anniversary Summer Proms
Martin Yates - Conductor Victor Sangiorgio - Piano West End vocalists Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue • Summertime I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise Girl Crazy: Overture • Swanee I’ve Got a Crush on You Our Love is Here to Stay Promenade (Walking the Dog) Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off The Man I Love • Fascinatin’ Rhythm Bernstein West Side Story: Mambo | Tonight | Something’s Coming | Somewhere | A Boy Like That Candide: Overture On the Town: Lonely Town | Carried Away | Times Square 1944 | I Can Cook Too | Some Other Time | New York, New York Wonderful Town: A Little Bit in Love | One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose A Man New York, New York! George Gershwin wrote the soundtrack to the Jazz Age Big Apple. Lennie Bernstein turned its mean streets into thrilling song and dance. Together, they add up to one fabulous night out on the Fourth of July in the greatest city on earth... Birmingham, of course! We’re talking songs like Summertime and Fascinatin’ Rhythm, and shows like West Side Story and On the Town, not forgetting the theme tune of Manhattan itself, Rhapsody in Blue. So let’s go - it’s a helluva town!
Jae Alexander - Conductor Janet Mooney - Soprano John Hudson - Tenor Gather your friends and family, prepare your picnic and join us for a spectacular evening of superb music and incredible fireworks as we celebrate Warwick Castle’s 1,100th birthday. Jae Alexander conducts the Orchestra in a programme of popular classics, film themes and all the flag-waving favourites of the ‘Last Night of the Proms’. Gates open at 6pm, concert starts at 7.30pm and will finish at approximately 10pm with a firework finale. Tickets available from www.warwickconcerts.com
Produced in association with West End International Ltd.
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