Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2012
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Radio 3 in the sun at WOMAD 2012 - day 2
She'Keymorovou on the Radio 3 stage at WOMAD 2012 Saturday at WOMAD 2012 and the Radio 3 stage has been alive with music to get world music lovers in the festival mood. An energentic Chrissy Cowley gave both festival goers and those listening at home a Celtic treat on the fiddle to start us ...
The 2012 Proms on TV, part two
As I write this I am waiting for Martin Creed's Bells to ring out over the country. And I am wondering how Danny Boyle is feeling this morning. For everyone who puts on events, there is always this moment just before, the quiet moment, when the stage is empty, just waiting for everything to begi...
Radio 3 Live at WOMAD 2012
Radio 3 Live at WOMAD 2012 has kicked off with traditional music trio Genticorum all the way from Quebec and Arthur Jeffes' Sundog. After days of setting up in the sun we have a wonderful new stage for this year for our musicians to entertain the crowds. Listen on Radio 3 from 11pm with Seth...
Introducing Free Thinking 2012
Radio 3 Producer Tim Prosser reveals the plans for this year's Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival We're delighted to announce that the Free Thinking Festival will be returning to The Sage, Gateshead in November for a packed weekend of debate, talks and performance (Friday 2 Nov - Sunday 4 Nov...
The 2012 Proms on TV, part one
A scene from My Fair Lady at the Proms. Photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC Greetings Proms fans, here we go again! At last a comfy seat indoors (no more mud and rain) and a summer of fabulous concerts. A journalist asked me the other day, 'How do you choose which concerts to put on TV?' I do...
TEST DO NOT PUBLISH
BBC Radio 3 stage devotees will get a bit more protection from the elements this year with a Saddlespan tent positioned in a slightly less-treed area of WOMAD's Arboretum, affording similar shade but a clearer view of a strong line-up both of familiar artists from across the world, and emerging ...
Proms First Night - The View from the Altos ...
In the first of a series of Proms blogs, BBC Symphony Chorus alto Sally Cox lifts the lid on the First Night ... The BBC Symphony Chorus almost always sings in the first night concert and this year was no exception. This year a whole heap of internationally renowned soloists and conductors ...
Mud, glorious mud!
One of the musicians of COMBÉ playing at Latitude 2012. Photo: Danielle Peck/BBC With multi coloured sheep, majestic snowy owls circling the site each evening and, frankly biblical weather, the past four days at the Latitude Festival have seen the Late Junction production team communing with...
Final countdown to the 2012 BBC Proms
Roger Wright at the Royal Albert Hall The 118th season of BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts is about to begin and, thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded through the licence fee, the artistic quality remains exceptional and ticket prices as low as ever. The vision of those first Pr...
