BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra with Angel Blue
Royal Albert Hall, SW7 2AP , [Venue Details]Europe’s first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra Chineke! is back. It opens with the premiere of a suite drawn from music for a ballet left incomplete by the South Carolina-born Edmund Thornton Jenkins, who died aged only 32.
American soprano Angel Blue sings Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – a child’s all-encompassing vision of life in a teeming urban centre – as well as new arrangements of songs by some of 20th-century America’s greatest tunesmiths.
After the interval we swap cities for forests and fields in the ecstatic nature hymn that is Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
Programme
Edmund Thornton Jenkins reconstr. & arr Tuffus Zimbabwe Dance Suite c15’
world premiere
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 15’
New arrangements of songs by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Margaret Bonds, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers 18’
Interval
Dvořák - Symphony No. 8 in G major 34’
More Information
Admission
Min: £19.34
Max: £71.36
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Angel Blue - soprano, Chineke! Orchestra
Other key names: Jonathon Heyward - conductor
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Not recommended for U5's
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BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra with Angel Blue
Saturday, 22 Aug 2026 @7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall, SW7 2APMore Information
Europe’s first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra Chineke! is back. It opens with the premiere of a suite drawn from music for a ballet left incomplete by the South Carolina-born Edmund Thornton Jenkins, who died aged only 32.
American soprano Angel Blue sings Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – a child’s all-encompassing vision of life in a teeming urban centre – as well as new arrangements of songs by some of 20th-century America’s greatest tunesmiths.
After the interval we swap cities for forests and fields in the ecstatic nature hymn that is Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
Programme
Edmund Thornton Jenkins reconstr. & arr Tuffus Zimbabwe Dance Suite c15’
world premiere
Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915 15’
New arrangements of songs by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Margaret Bonds, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers 18’
Interval
Dvořák - Symphony No. 8 in G major 34’
Admission
Min: £19.34
Max: £71.36
Event Type: seated
Seating: Reserved
Performer name: Angel Blue - soprano, Chineke! Orchestra
Other key names: Jonathon Heyward - conductor
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Not recommended for U5's
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