Carnival Prom: British Light Music Classics
Pioneers of British light music, the New London Orchestra starts this special Aldeburgh Carnival weekend with a programme that includes some instantly-recognisable light classics. They include well-loved hits such as Calling All Workers, Coronation Scott and The Dambusters March, and there are favourite arias from Ivor Novello and Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. But there are also many others that you will certainly recognise but may not know by name, some of the most familiar radio theme tunes of all.Coates Calling All Workers
Binge Elizabethan Serenade
Bucalossi Grasshopper's Dance
Farnon Jumping Bean
Duncan March from Little Suite
Sullivan The Sun Whose Rays (The Mikado)
German Waltz Song (Tom Jones)
Wood Barwick Green
White Puffin' Billy
Ancliffe Nights of Gladness
Monkton Soldier in the Park
Gibbs Dusk
Williams The Devil's Gallop
Vinter Portuguese Party
Balfe I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (The Bohemian Girl)
Novello Waltz of my Heart (The Dancing Years)
Farnon Westminster Waltz
Ellis Coronation Scott
Coates The Dambusters March
Conducted by Ronald Corp
Snape Maltings
New London Orchestra at Hackney Downs Studios
NLO presents East London’s first orchestral concert series. We’re launching with a performance by a 42-piece orchestra in a former industrial printworks, featuring new music by contemporary artists set to video projection by Pablo Melchor and Rachel Noble. The audience will be standing and free to move around, we’ll have beer and food served out of a converted trailer by East London Furniture, plus DJ sets from Gabriel Prokofiev & Nwando Ebizie (Nonclassical) and Rhys Pettigrove.Max Richter Music from The Blue Notebooks and Infra
Bryce Dessner (The National) Aheym for Chamber Orchestra
John Luther Adams Become River (UK PREMIÈRE)
Valgeir Sigurðsson Movements from Dreamland (UK PREMIÈRE)
Michael Nyman Movements from Strong On Oaks
Gabriel Prokofiev Spheres (UK PREMIÈRE)
+ Orchestral covers of music by Tame Impala, Jamie xx & SBTRKT by composer Toby Young
Conducted by Ronald Corp
Hackney Downs Studios
George Dyson Choral Symphony (WORLD PREMIÈRE)
NLO will give the world première of George Dyson’s Choral Symphony after a member of Durham University chanced upon the long-forgotten music in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. We’ll be joined by The London Chorus and Durham University Music Society Chorus for the show, which will also feature world-renowned baritone Sir Thomas Allen singing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and an extremely rare performance of Sir Charles Stanford’s Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra with Simon Williams.Conducted by Ronald Corp
St John Smith Square
NLO's 25th Birthday Concert
The NLO is 25 years old! Help us celebrate our birthday with a performance showcasing some of our all-time favourite composers. The orchestra’s story is encapsulated in this eclectic mix of music, from our beginnings promoting once little-known, but now famous composers such as Martinů, through our award-winning recordings of British Light Music by the likes of Trevor Duncan, to our modern day commitment to contemporary composers such as Richter and Simaku.Leonard Bernstein Candide: Overture
Sir Michael Tippet Divertimento on Sellinger's Round: mvmt 1
Ronald Corp Sinfonia 4711
Bohuslav Martinů Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Timpani and Piano
Thomas Simaku Plenilunio
Max Richter On the Nature of Daylight
John Walter Bratton Teddy Bear's Picnic
Trevor Duncan A Little Suite: March
Jacques Ibert Divertissement
Conducted by Ronald Corp
St John Smith Square
Benjamin Britten Noye’s Fludde
NLO brings together young people from East London to celebrate the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten, one of the UK’s most brilliant composers, with three fully-staged performances of Noye’s Fludde, his elaborate and imaginative opera that breathes life into the legendary story of Noah’s Ark.The two UK performances will take place in London’s only lighthouse and will feature 100s of young performers from Newham Academy of Music, performing alongside soloists Henry Manning and Catherine Hopper, with narration from actress Tameka Empson (Eastenders / 3 Non-Blondes). We will then give a performance in France in collaboration with the Orchestre National de Lille.
Conducted by Ronald Corp
Trinity Buoy Wharf & Lille
