Prom 25: Zappa 鈥撀燭he Adventures of Greggery Peccary

31 Jul 2013, Royal Albert Hall

22:15 Wed 31 Jul 2013 Next Event

Proms 2013 Prom 25: Zappa 鈥撀燭he Adventures of Greggery Peccary

22:15 Wed 31 Jul 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa鈥檚 counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass鈥檚 Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.

Programme

- - Conlon Nancarrow
  - Study for Player Piano No. 7 (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff)(10 mins)
- - Frank Zappa
  - G-Spot Tornado(4 mins)
- - Philip Glass
  - Symphony No. 10(27 mins)UK premiere
- - Frank Zappa
  - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary(25 mins)

Performers

Christopher Purves
baritone
baritone
Mitch Benn
narrator
narrator
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

Trend-mongers, philosophers and hunchmen. A car-chase, a love-in and a replica mahogany desk. A coughing mountain, a choir of stenographers and an exceptional swine-pig called Greggery. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra give the first Proms performance of Frank Zappa鈥檚 high-energy counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary.

An arrangement of a zany Nancarrow study and the UK premiere of Philip Glass鈥檚 10th Symphony complete a far-out late-night happening from one of Britain鈥檚 most vivacious young orchestras.

There will be no interval

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