Don't forget to tune in to the Chineke! Orchestra Prom tonight:
Coleridge-Taylor - Overture to The Song of Hiawatha, Op.30 No.3
Fela Sowande - African Suite
Florence Price - Piano Concerto
Coleridge-Taylor - Symphony in A minor
:)
Thank you for the reminder! You know how my memory is these days.
I'm glad to see that in your post you correct
the error made in both the Proms booklet and the Radio Times, where it's described as Overture: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. These people are musically illiterate.
The ignorance of the laity.
Yep, it's the overture to the entire trilogy, largely based, perhaps oddly, on the spiritual
Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord.
Nobody knows how little trouble the BBC takes to get simple things like titles right. ::)
Quite so. However, I have every confidence that the guys and gals of Chineke! will do the piece (and the rest of the programme) proud (and accurately!)
