:00:31. > :00:33.Hello, and a very warm welcome from the Royal Albert Hall to those
:00:34. > :00:36.of you who've just joined us, and a very warm welcome back
:00:37. > :00:39.to those of you who've already been with us for Proms Extra.
:00:40. > :00:42.I'm Katie Derham, and over the next two hours we'll be bringing you some
:00:43. > :00:45.of the 20th century's most loved music, courtesy of the incredible,
:00:46. > :00:49.electric writing partnership of George and Ira Gershwin.
:00:50. > :00:52.Tonight, George's music and his brother Ira's lyrics, will be
:00:53. > :00:54.brought to life here in the Hall by the ever-popular
:00:55. > :00:58.John Wilson Orchestra, conducted by the man himself.
:00:59. > :01:01.The players will be joined by John Wilson favourites -
:01:02. > :01:04.soloists Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford and Julian Ovenden,
:01:05. > :01:11.The music will be known the world over,
:01:12. > :01:13.but incredibly the original sheet music only exists for six
:01:14. > :01:17.of the 18 pieces, something that presented a bit
:01:18. > :01:19.of a problem at the planning stages of this Prom!
:01:20. > :01:22.But fear not, as John Wilson has a big passion for reconstructing
:01:23. > :01:25.lost film scores and he's spent months working with a team
:01:26. > :01:29.of collaborators to transcribe those 12 missing pieces,
:01:30. > :01:32.using archives and original movie soundtracks.
:01:33. > :01:36.And all of that work means that we'll be listening to some classics
:01:37. > :01:38.that haven't been performed live by an orchestra since their original
:01:39. > :01:56.Here comes the leader of the John Wilson Orchestra, John Mills.
:01:57. > :01:59.We begin with the overture from the 1945 George Gershwin
:02:00. > :02:05.It's an opulent medley of Gershwin's finest music,
:02:06. > :02:12.including the famous tune that gave the film its title.
:02:13. > :02:20.Baton here he is, he doesn't need any introduction, John Wilson to
:02:21. > :12:55.lead us in this evening of music by George and Ira Gershwin.
:12:56. > :13:56.# Now I'm old enough to cast a fewer votes, I'm going out to sew a few
:13:57. > :14:00.oats. # Don't you dare
:14:01. > :14:05.to handle me with care # Don't you dare
:14:06. > :14:50.to handle me with care # Don't you dare
:14:51. > :15:21.to handle me with care # When I was born, they found
:15:22. > :16:29.a silver spoon in my mouth # And so I always
:16:30. > :16:31.had the best of care # When winter came up north,
:16:32. > :16:37.of course they motored me south # And so I always #
:16:38. > :16:43.had the best of care # Life was just a bore
:16:44. > :16:58.till it dawned on me # If I wanted to be a man among men
:16:59. > :17:02.# I'd have to be manhandled now and then.
:17:03. > :17:06.# Don't you dare to handle me with care
:17:07. > :19:44.# But you know that there's no-one but you!
:19:45. > :19:53.# Even when love seems black and blue?
:19:54. > :20:18.# Always there'll be a happy ending in view!
:20:19. > :20:26.# All that I know is you'd be hard to replace,
:20:27. > :20:38.# Where else in all the world such loveliness and grace?
:20:39. > :20:47.# The poet often chanted the love he found divine,
:20:48. > :20:56.# But never was he granted a lady love like mine!
:20:57. > :21:06.# Deep down, deep down inside my secret heart knows
:21:07. > :21:16.# The more and more my rapture grows!
:21:17. > :23:21.# Bigging today, you'll find it nice # The quickest way to Paradise
:23:22. > :23:23.# When you practice # Here's the thing to do
:23:24. > :31:18.# Simply say as you go. Amazing solos from members of the
:31:19. > :31:23.John Wilson Orchestra. The trumpet players on their feet, trombone, and
:31:24. > :32:18.an amazing piano solo by Ian Buckle. # Just try it,
:32:19. > :32:33.and I'll start a riot, # I'm certain, It's
:32:34. > :32:47.the final curtain. # Don't want to hear
:32:48. > :32:54.from and cheerful Pollyannas, # Don't want to hear from any
:32:55. > :32:58.cheerful Pollyannas, # Who tell me love will find
:32:59. > :33:17.a way, it's all bananas. # They're writing songs
:33:18. > :33:24.of love, but not for me, # A lucky star's above,
:33:25. > :33:32.but not for me, # Than any Russian
:33:33. > :33:54.play could guarantee. # I was a fool to fall,
:33:55. > :34:03.and get that way, # Hi ho!
:34:04. > :34:06.Alas! # Hello!
:34:07. > :35:23.# How are you? # How's the folks?
:35:24. > :35:25.# What's new? # I'm great!
:35:26. > :35:26.# That's good! # Huh-huh!
:35:27. > :35:27.# Touch wood! # Well well!
:35:28. > :35:30.# what say? # How've you been?
:35:31. > :35:32.# Nice day! # How's things?
:35:33. > :35:33.# What's new? # That's fine!
:35:34. > :35:44.# How are you? # Nice weather we're having but it
:35:45. > :35:47.gives me such a pain # I've taken my umbrella so I hope
:35:48. > :35:49.it doesn't rain. # Well, hey'ho!
:35:50. > :35:51.# That's life! # What's new?
:35:52. > :35:52.# How's the wife? # Got to run!
:35:53. > :35:54.# Oh my! # Ta-ta!
:35:55. > :35:55.# Olive oil! # And then it happened that one day
:35:56. > :36:29.they chanced to meet again! # That they had both developed
:36:30. > :36:33.in ten years there was no doubt, # And so of course they had
:36:34. > :36:39.an awful lot to talk about! # Hello!
:36:40. > :36:40.# How are you? # How's the folks?
:36:41. > :36:42.# What's new? # I'm great!
:36:43. > :36:43.# That's good! # Huh-huh!
:36:44. > :36:46.# Touch wood! # Well well!
:36:47. > :36:47.# what say? # How've you been?
:36:48. > :36:50.# Nice day! # How's things?
:36:51. > :36:51.# What's new? # That's fine!
:36:52. > :36:55.# How are you? # Ta-ta!
:36:56. > :36:56.# Olive oil! # Before they met again,
:36:57. > :38:05.some twenty years they had to wait; # This time it happened up above,
:38:06. > :38:07.inside Saint Peter's gate! # A harp each one was carrying,
:38:08. > :38:10.and both were wearing wings, # And this is what they said as they
:38:11. > :38:14.were strumming on the strings; # Hello!
:38:15. > :38:16.# How are you? # How's the folks?
:38:17. > :38:22.# What's new? # Well, hey'ho!
:38:23. > :38:24.# That's life! # What's new?
:38:25. > :38:25.# How's the wife? # Got to run!
:38:26. > :38:27.# Oh my! # Ta-ta!
:38:28. > :38:28.# Olive oil! # If you want this
:38:29. > :48:02.old world on a string # Put on your dancing
:48:03. > :48:03.shoes # Or shall we dance
:48:04. > :51:20.with never a care? # They all said we'd never get
:51:21. > :51:24.together # They all laughed and how
:51:25. > :51:52.# But Ho Ho Ho # Who's got the last laugh now?
:51:53. > :51:59.Matthew Ford and Louise Dearman recreating the roles played by Fred
:52:00. > :52:03.Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1937 Gershwin film.
:52:04. > :52:12.Bringing the first half of this to an end but don't worry, plenty more
:52:13. > :52:24.music in the second half, just moments away.
:52:25. > :52:30.John Wilson returning to the stage, bringing his orchestra to their feet
:52:31. > :52:35.to the great delight of the audience here at the Royal Albert Hall. It
:52:36. > :52:43.might be his eighth combat the audience never tire of the music of
:52:44. > :52:45.John Wilson -- it might be his eighth Prom, but the audience never
:52:46. > :52:49.tire. What a glorious end to the first
:52:50. > :52:51.half of the concert. And now, let's crack
:52:52. > :52:53.on with the second half. John Wilson, the John
:52:54. > :52:56.Wilson orchestra, soloists Louise Dearman,
:52:57. > :52:58.Matthew Ford and Julian Ovenden, plus the Maida Vale Singers,
:52:59. > :53:00.bringing us more of George and Ira Gershwin's
:53:01. > :53:02.stunning music. We'll be hearing the
:53:03. > :53:05.likes of Funny Face, Let's Kiss and Make Up,
:53:06. > :53:26.'S Wonderful, and the iconic ballet And here he comes. John Wilson back
:53:27. > :53:30.on stage here at the Royal Albert Hall. For this very special Gershwin
:53:31. > :54:28.Prom. # We must have music in the land
:54:29. > :54:32.# For everybody loves a band # A good old rousing melody
:54:33. > :54:39.# Is a joy and inspiration # The tune can stir the nation
:54:40. > :54:44.# Music so master take command # Our hearts will beat to greet the
:54:45. > :54:46.band. # Flag unfurled
:54:47. > :55:59.# We can face the world. # Wheel or give a cheer as we stand
:56:00. > :56:05.# To the man with the stick in his hand
:56:06. > :56:08.# Hey, lead # er, strike up the band!
:56:09. > :58:18.# Thank you dear your modesty reveals to me
:58:19. > :58:22.# If I had your funny face appeals to me
:58:23. > :58:24.# Please don't think suddenly gone mad
:58:25. > :58:34.# You have all the qualities of Peter Pan
:58:35. > :58:36.# I'd go far before I'd find a sweeter pan
:58:37. > :59:02.# I love your funny face. # For your QT with more than beauty
:59:03. > :59:09.# You've got a lot of personality for me
:59:10. > :59:17.# You fill the air with smiles # For miles and miles and miles
:59:18. > :59:19.# Though you're no Mona Lisa # For worlds I'd not replace your
:59:20. > :00:42.sunny, funny smile. # You're not exotic
:00:43. > :00:47.# But so exotic # You're much too much
:00:48. > :00:58.# If you can cook the way you look # I'd swing the ocean wide
:00:59. > :01:14.# Just to have you by my side # Though you're no Queen of Sheba
:01:15. > :01:18.# For worlds I'd not replace #.
:01:19. > :02:31.# Love walked right in and drove the shadows away;
:02:32. > :02:42.# Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day.
:02:43. > :02:55.# That love said "Hello!", and my heart seemed to know
:02:56. > :03:08.# One look and I forgot the gloom of the past
:03:09. > :03:17.# One look and I had found my future at last.
:03:18. > :03:30.# One look and I had found a world completely new,
:03:31. > :04:24.# When love walked in... With you.
:04:25. > :04:30.# One look and I forgot the gloom of the past
:04:31. > :04:39.# One look and I had found my future at last.
:04:40. > :04:53.# One look and I had found a world completely new,
:04:54. > :05:16.# When love walked in... With you.
:05:17. > :05:44.# Don't you know Ben Franklin wrote about this thing at length?
:05:45. > :05:49.# On the proposition that in union there is strength?
:05:50. > :06:07.# We'll be much stronger and live much longer.
:06:08. > :10:22.# That the world is in quite a state!
:10:23. > :10:52.# Never will know any foreign entanglements;
:10:53. > :11:09.# Fooling around will be unconstitutional,
:11:10. > :11:21.# With nothing but true love in the ascendance,
:11:22. > :11:34.# Where you depend on me and I depend on you!
:11:35. > :11:43.# Built on the pursuit of star spangled happiness;
:11:44. > :14:44.# The all adore # A step that everyone's been
:14:45. > :14:53.waiting for # The swing trot
:14:54. > :14:54.# It's a deal # The other greatest dancer in the
:14:55. > :15:06.land. # You realise swing trot is here to
:15:07. > :17:25.stay. # All the way from Rome to Zanzibar
:17:26. > :18:14.# Feels like the whole wide world is swinging the swing trot #.
:18:15. > :18:24.# And now that dream is here beside me
:18:25. > :19:01.# And now that dream is here beside me
:19:02. > :19:38.# And now that dream is here beside me
:19:39. > :20:09.# The dream I dreamed was not denied me
:20:10. > :22:36.# You can't blame me for feeling amorous,
:22:37. > :23:28.# You can't blame me for feeling amorous,
:23:29. > :27:04.# The dreams you dreamed have all
:27:05. > :28:27.# But fools will be fools and where's he gone to?
:28:28. > :45:54.What a finale from the John Wilson Orchestra. Bringing the soloists to
:45:55. > :45:57.their feet as the cheers ring out at the Royal Albert Hall. That was the
:45:58. > :46:19.ballet from An American in Paris. As usual, played with panache by
:46:20. > :46:36.these fabulous musicians. The leader, there, John Mills.
:46:37. > :46:41.Looking back at his string section. They must be so thrilled with the
:46:42. > :46:46.way this evening has gone. 6000 people cheering and stamping. Most
:46:47. > :46:51.of them have been swaying and smiling all evening. John Wilson
:46:52. > :46:57.coming back to the stage. Told us earlier this was the highlight of
:46:58. > :46:59.the year for him and his orchestra. And I'm guessing we are getting an
:47:00. > :47:27.encore. # How wonderful that I am holding
:47:28. > :47:33.# And never-never land on folding # Where we polish of the stars
:47:34. > :47:47.# And mountains we move # In a life where all the pleasures
:47:48. > :48:03.we will prove # It's a new world I see
:48:04. > :48:20.# A new world for me # The tears have rolled off my cheek
:48:21. > :48:24.# And fears fade away every time you speak
:48:25. > :48:39.# A new world # Though we are in a tiny room
:48:40. > :48:50.# What the vision of joy and blossom and gloom
:48:51. > :49:02.# A new found promise # One that lasts
:49:03. > :49:13.# So I'm holdin' on and I'm holdin' fast
:49:14. > :49:52.# And that it will always, always be #.
:49:53. > :50:00.Louise Dearman there with a song made famous by Judy Garland in the
:50:01. > :50:06.1954 film. # It means when it is striking us
:50:07. > :50:14.# The audience is liking us # Our work demands
:50:15. > :50:18.# You don't sit on your hands # And if the hands commend us
:50:19. > :50:22.# You send us # We live, we thrive
:50:23. > :50:25.# You keep us all alive # With bravo and bravissimo
:50:26. > :50:29.# We're dead if it's pianissimo # Our work is work we never
:50:30. > :50:33.shirk # In the happy land
:50:34. > :50:37.of tinsel and gauze # Whether you're a Swiss bell-ringer
:50:38. > :50:44.# Or a crooner # Or mnemologist
:50:45. > :50:46.# Ventriloquist or what # Or a dog act # Or magician
:50:47. > :50:50.# Or a musical saw musician # Or an ingenue
:50:51. > :50:54.# Or pianist who is hot # And what better reward
:50:55. > :51:03.for a trouper # The manager,
:51:04. > :51:23.he audits our plaudits # And obey the theater's
:51:24. > :53:18.unwritten laws The whole company onstage for that
:53:19. > :53:29.second encore, appropriately named Applause, Applause from Give a Girl
:53:30. > :53:37.a Break. John Wilson soaking up the applause. Maida Vale singers. Louise
:53:38. > :53:42.Dearman, Julian of London, Matthew Ford, wonderful soloists, real
:53:43. > :54:01.friends of the John Wilson Orchestra.
:54:02. > :54:10.I've said it before, I'm sure I'll say it again, the audience here at
:54:11. > :54:17.the Proms do love John Wilson. And here he comes again. Leader John
:54:18. > :54:51.Mills. They clearly relished every moment,
:54:52. > :55:02.didn't they? That's the chorus master. The Maida Vale singers, such
:55:03. > :55:20.stalwarts of every John Wilson Prom. Coming back on, en masse.
:55:21. > :55:29.Fantastically varied programme. Wonderful Gershwin hits. Some less
:55:30. > :55:33.familiar. All of them lovingly recreated by John Wilson. Such a
:55:34. > :55:54.champion of both George and Ira Gershwin. What a wonderful night
:55:55. > :56:02.it's been. And the applause still echoing around here in the Royal
:56:03. > :56:06.Albert Hall. I'm not in the gallery. As John Wilson comes back on and
:56:07. > :56:18.brings his orchestra to their feet one more time. Well, I hope that you
:56:19. > :56:20.have enjoyed it at home as much as we have here at the Royal Albert
:56:21. > :56:26.Hall. Tune in to BBC2 next Saturday
:56:27. > :56:28.evening for Ravel's Bolero and Rachmaninov's soaring
:56:29. > :56:34.Piano Concerto no.3, with Russian conductor
:56:35. > :56:37.Valery Gergiev and the Munich