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| Jacob Collier Photo credit: Monika S. Jakubowska |
The jazz content at this year’s Proms – the programme has just been announced – is relatively low: it is focused on just two events: a full 7.30pm Prom for Jacob Collier and the Metropole Orkest and a late night Gershwin Prom with NYJO – plus events to mark the Leonard Bernstein centenary.
SELECTED 2018 PROMS
19 July Prom 7 Jacob Collier and guests with the Metropole Orkest Dir. Jules Buckley
16 August Prom 46 NYJO and Benjamin Grosvenor
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18 July Prom 6 Gershwin’s An American in Paris (paired with Messiaen’s Turangalila)
31 July Prom 23 Havana meets Kingston – produced by Mista Savona (aka Jake Savona)
8 August Prom 35: New York: Story of a City with Metropole Orkest Dir. Jules Buckley, Hercules and Love Affair, serpentwithfeet and Sharon Van Etten
11 August Proms 38 and 39 West Side Story Dir. By John Wilson
Two performances
Afternoon
Evening
25 August Prom 57 Bernstein’s On the Town
31 Aug Prom 65A Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
4 Sep Prom 70 Tango Prom
Categories: miscellaneous
Alex Ridout winner of the 2016 BBC Young Musician Jazz Award and Alexander Bone who won the first in 2014 are both appearing in Prom 3.