Proms to be given rousing send-off (From Gazette Series)

Proms to be given rousing send-off

7:30am Saturday 13th September 2008 in

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The BBC's annual classical music season will come to a rousing end.

Music lovers will celebrate the Last Night of the Proms with a flag waving celebration at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sir Roger Norrington, Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a patriotic favourites Pomp and Circumstance, Rule Britannia! and Jerusalem, before closing the show with the National Anthem.

Forty years after making his Proms debut, the conductor will close the concert season for the first time on Saturday evening.

He will lead the orchestra in his interpretation of works by Beethoven, Wagner, Puccini and Verdi.

The later part of the evening will celebrate folk music with an arrangement of traditional music from around the British Isles.

Composer Chris Hazell has put together a piece comprising of The Turtle Dove from England, Loch Lomond from Scotland, Cariad cyntaf from Wales, and Molly Malone, from Ireland.

The folk theme will continue with renditions of Peppino Turco's ode to the Italian cable railway, Funiculi, funicula and Vaughan Williams's Sea Songs.

This year's concerts have celebrated the music of the English composer on the 50th anniversary of his death.

This year's Prom season was the 113th year of the concerts.