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BBC NOW 2025-26 Season A Celebration of Ivor Novello

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
A Celebration of Ivor Novello
19:30 Fri 6 Mar 2026 BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

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A Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the death of Ivor Novello

Cardiff born Star of Stage and Screen, David Ivor Davies, known to millions as Ivor Novello, composed over 230 published songs in his lifetime, many from his eight West End Musicals which dominated British Musical Theatre for three decades.

Join BBC NOW and two star singers, conducted by Novello specialist Ian McMillan-Davidson, 75 years to the day of his premature death on March 6 1951 to celebrate this Welsh composer's legacy in a special Gala Tribute of the BBC's longest running live music show, Friday Night is Music Night, live from BBC Hoddinott Hall and on BBC Radio 3.

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