Castle Park Bangor Highlights Proms in the Park

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

welcome to Proms in the Park 2011.

Please show your appreciation for the Ulster Orchestra

and conductor David Brophy.

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Ladies and gentlemen, a warm round of applause for this evening's hosts,

Claire McCollum and Noel Thompson. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

-Hello, gorgeous.

-All right?

-How are you?

-Doing very well, good evening!

-I like rehearsing that bit!

Ladies and gentlemen, it's our very great pleasure to offer you

a very warm welcome to this year's Proms in the Park concert.

This is our 10th year, Belfast was brilliant,

Carrickfergus was a cracker, Hillsborough was heavenly,

but Bangor's going to be just beautiful.

-It certainly is indeed!

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And of course all with the fantastic support of the Ulster Orchestra,

give them another quick round of applause, please.

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Fantastic as ever to have the Ulster Orchestra here this evening

and they opened of course with Mozart's overture to The Marriage Of Figaro

and it certainly is a great start

to what is going to be a great, great evening.

All right, we're here for some unbelievably wonderful music.

Of course, I must say at this point that

we would like to extend our thanks to North Down Borough Council,

without whom this would not have been possible.

Thank you for allowing us to use this fantastic piece of ground.

So, without further ado, let us ask the orchestra

with their leader Ioana Petcu-Colan and David Brophy

to take us away from here to the skies of sunny Spain.

Bizet's March Of The Toreadors from Carmen!

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It's our very great pleasure to introduce

our first special guest of the evening.

She sang with us five years ago and it was a tumultuous success

and we are so glad to have her with this again tonight.

It is, ladies and gentlemen, no-one other than the diva of all divas,

the very beautiful Lesley Garrett!

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LESLEY SINGS IN ITALIAN

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LESLEY WARBLES

And she's still going, ladies and gentleman!

Lesley, you look fantastic

and that was just a stunning, stunning performance.

Oh, that was such fun! I can't tell you, that was such fun!

-4,000 people, all rocking it, oh, it was wonderful!

-You couldn't beat it!

She did tell me earlier in rehearsals

that she was going to be 100 times more hyper when she came off and she's right!

You can't help it, it's the adrenaline, you know,

it's that wonderful music and the Ulster Orchestra,

oh, they are playing SO fabulously.

It just is the best, best fun, it really is.

-Are they listening out there?!

-They are! Give them a wave!

Thank you, everybody! Oh, I didn't realise you will seeing this!

You are the best audience, thank you so much!

-Leslie, thank you very much, go and get changed and cool off.

-See later.

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Moving on, Rodeo is a Ballet written by Aaron Copland.

In its symphonic form it has four movements,

there's the Buckaroo Holiday, Corral Nocturne,

-Saturday Night Waltz and Hoe Down!

-LAUGHTER

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So, from the Rodeo to something altogether more ordered.

Karl Jenkins is a Welsh composer

and the piece we're going to hear was written by him in 1996,

but it was inspired by the 16th century Italian architect Palladio.

Now, Palladio embodied the Renaissance dream of order and harmony

and this is what is reflected in Jenkins' music.

So will hear one movement from Palladio.

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Karl Jenkins' Palladio.

Now, everywhere you go in the world, as we all know,

you meet people of Irish origin,

well, we went to Australia to secure the services of our next guest -

a long way to go.

And when we had them secured it was only purely by chance,

in fact, as a result of a tweet by the man himself,

who we discovered that his ma is from Belfast!

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He is now one of the world's finest players of the classical guitar.

I'd like you, ladies and gentlemen, to put your hands together,

a big North Down Proms in the Park welcome for Craig Ogden!

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A stunning, stunning performance there by Craig Ogden.

How was it out there for you tonight?

Actually, the crowd are so lovely that...

you know, it's quite an intimidating scene, obviously,

big stage, big audience, it's on television,

but everybody was so incredibly welcoming

that it made me relax quite quickly.

This is your first Proms, Craig?

It is, absolutely, and obviously, even growing up in Australia,

we get the last night of the Proms on television,

so it's an institution I've been aware of since I was a small child

and to be taking part in it is an amazing total dream.

And I know it's a very, very proud evening.

You mentioned your mum's from here this evening -

how proud do think she would be of you after that performance?

I think she would be beside herself,

but also she would have been absolutely terrified on my behalf!

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-Well, we certainly enjoyed it, as you can hear, the crowd loved it.

Craig, thank you very much, we'll let you go and enjoy the rest of the show.

-Thank you very much, thanks, Claire.

-Thank you.

Well, now, Bangor is obviously famous for its marina, Pickie pool

and paddling in the sea with an ice cream in your hand,

but it's also been put on the world musical map

by a group called Snow Patrol and this is our tribute to them,

it's a medley been put together by one of our very own Proms production team Graeme Stuart.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is my...

very, very great pleasure to introduce our next guest.

This performer has been at the top of his trade

since he won the Tchaikovsky gold-medal piano prize in Moscow 25 years ago

and he's also won respect and renown as a conductor.

His travels, his work, take him around the world,

but tonight he is in Bangor.

So please a big Proms in the Park welcome for Mr Barry Douglas!

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That was unbelievable as always.

That was the piece that won you the gold medal in Moscow a few short years ago.

Does it have a really special place in your heart and your repertoire?

It does, I like to play it all the time,

not too much because I want it to be very special each time I approach it

and it's such great music, I love it.

You could exist in this bubble of the international superstar,

but you give a lot back to music.

I mean, not least in Northern Ireland with Camerata of course,

you're always developing new talent. Why is that so important you?

I think it's very important to encourage the new young talent

that is here on the island, north and south,

and through Clandeboye festival here near Bangor we do a lot of that

and we've been doing that for nearly 10 years now

and there is SO much talent here

and whatever we can do as an orchestra,

or I as an individual or an artist, that's, I want to do it.

Thank you so much for being with us this evening, it's been a real pleasure as always.

-I hope you enjoy the rest of the evening.

-Thank you.

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Now, composer Max Steiner is one of the founders of film music as we know it today.

He provided the music for Gone With The Wind

and its sweeping and elevating score really has stood the test of time

sending shivers down your spine and given you goosebumps.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Tara's Theme.

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Now, ladies and gentlemen,

all of you old rockers will know who Paul Weller is, don't you?

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-Yes?

-ALL: Yes!

Paul Weller of The Jam and the Style Council of course.

Well, he was asked recently if there was one song of the last two decades

that he would like to have written, what would it be?

Well, he chose a song by a Dublin singer-songwriter

Declan O'Rourke, a song called Galileo.

And it just showed Mr Weller's good taste

because this is a very special song.

Let's give a big, big warm welcome, please to Declan O'Rourke!

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# Galileo fell in love

# As a Galilean boy

# And he wondered what in heavens

# Who invented such a joy?

# But the question got the better of his scientific mind

# And to his blind and dying days

# He looked up high And often sighed

# And sometimes cried

# Who puts the rainbow in the sky?

# Who lights the stars at night?

# Who dreamt up someone so divine?

# Someone like you And made them mine?

# Love can make you ask some funny questions now and then

# But just remember the alternative

# For I remember when

# I was lonely and unhappy And my lips were cold as ice

# But you kissed me and good heavens

# Now I'm here in paradise

# So if ever I'm not kissing you Or looking in your eyes

# I won't be blind and I won't cry

# I'll look up high and gladly sigh

# And thank the guy

# Who puts the rainbow in the sky?

# Who lights the stars at night?

# Who dreamt up someone so divine?

# Someone like you And made them mine?

# Someone like you And made them mine? #

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That was another fabulous performance indeed

and Declan is making his way to us now.

-Declan, that was just unbelievable.

-Nice to meet you, Claire.

-It was lovely. Now, how was it for you out there?

-Great fun.

They were great, I could see them vibing away,

I could see people stamping their feet and waving things, it was great, loved it!

So, for your first Proms you feel you've one under your belt now, you might come back?

They'd better have me back, yeah!

I won't give up until they have me back, certainly!

I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did, I loved it

and it was just great hearing that sound behind me up there...

And the sound that I'm hearing from the front now is great.

I know you've played with Snow Patrol before...

Great friends of mine, what a great bunch of guys, yeah,

they're legends, all of them, actually.

And you toured with them?

I've toured a lot with them, actually, I've been around...

Germany and we did Wembley a couple of times

and around Ireland a couple of times, yeah, so...

We loved having you here this evening, you've been good to our crowd, thank you very much.

-Thank you very much, Claire, my pleasure.

-Thank you very much, Declan, thank you.

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Louis B Mayer was a legendary head of MGM Studios in Hollywood

and in 1939, when he saw a preview of the Wizard Of Oz,

he thought the song Over The Rainbow was a real drag,

he thought it slows the whole thing down and he wanted it taken out.

Now, it was just the dedication of one of the associate producers

who insisted that it go in, thank goodness it did

because what a song - it has become one of the all-time greats.

Here to sing Over The Rainbow, one of the all-time greats,

please welcome once again the lovely Lesley Garrett.

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# When all the world is a hopeless jumble

# And the raindrops tumble all around

# Heaven opens a magic lane

# When all the clouds darken up the skyway

# There's a rainbow highway to be found

# Leading from your window pane

# To a place behind the sun

# Just a step beyond the rain

# Somewhere over the rainbow

# Way up high

# There's a land that I heard of

# Once in a lullaby

# Somewhere over the rainbow

# Skies are blue

# And the dreams that you dare to dream

# Really do come true

# Someday I'll wish upon a star

# And wake up where the stars are far behind me

# Where troubles melt like lemon drops

# Away above the chimney tops

# That's where you'll find me

# Somewhere over the rainbow

# Bluebirds fly

# Birds fly over the rainbow

# Why then oh why can't I?

# If happy little bluebirds fly

# Beyond the rainbow

# Why oh why can't I? #

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Lesley Garrett sparkling in every sense of the word.

Ladies and gentlemen,

can you believe we have come to the end of this evening?

-I can't believe it.

-Absolutely terrible.

Thank you so much helping us to celebrate our Proms in the Park

and thank you so much indeed to the North Down Borough Council,

without their help and support that tonight couldn't have happened.

-They've been wonderful.

-Yep.

Thank you to the orchestra, Ioana Petcu-Colan and David Brophy!

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And so we come to our final piece this evening.

Although written by John Philip Sousa,

Liberty Bell March is most often associated with that classic comedy

Monty Python's flying Circus.

So as Eric Idle might have said,

"And now for something completely different."

-Goodnight, Bangor!

-Goodnight!

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