Gemma New returns to the BBC Proms for a second season in a row

Photo Credit: Chris Christodoulou

Performance Details:

BBC Proms 2024 Series
Friday, August 16, 2024, at 7:30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Program:

Bonis Salomé
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major
Interval
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream – incidental music

Anthony McGill clarinet
NYCOS Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New conductor

Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s story – performed with readings from the play for dramatic context – after equally colorful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

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