Great Yarmouth

The BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by George Jackson returns to the iconic Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth for a special Friday Night is Music Night concert celebrating the orchestra's long-standing Create Yarmouth residency. There’ll be songs from classic musicals performed by West End singing sensation Rachel John. The orchestra premieres two brand new commissions from locally-based young composers of the community arts group Freshly Greated, plus there'll be a taste of Fado – the passionate popular song from Portugal - with local singer Zara Maia. Naturally, there’ll be popular classics old and new, including The Dam Busters March, and a whole squadron of British favourites inspired by land, air and sea – as well as a spotlight on one of the BBC Concert Orchestra’s own stars, principal horn Andrew Littlemore.

Presented by Katie Derham and recorded at the Hippodrome, Great Yarmouth on 8 November 2024.

Coates: The Dam Busters March
Lerner & Loewe: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Charles Stock & Adarsh Thomas : The Fallen Chevalier
Glière: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra - 2nd movement
Porter: Too Darn Hot
Price: Colonial Dance
Goodwin: 633 Squadron

INTERVAL

Arnold: English Dances: Set 1
Machado/Rodrigues, arr. Stephen Whibley: O gente da minha terra
Nininho Vaz Maia, arr. Stephen Whibley: A mi manera
Boyle: Wildgeese
Sonny King & Eleanor Yates: Never Turn Back
Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs: Quick March
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Getting To Know You
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Whistle A Happy Tune
Alford: Colonel Bogey March for Orchestra

Rachel John (singer)
Andrew Littlemore (horn)
Zara Maia (singer)
BBC Concert Orchestra
George Jackson (conductor)