01/01/2013 Proms in the Park

'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Proms In The Park 2012

'from Titanic Slipways, Belfast.'

ORCHESTRA PLAYS

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Ladies and gentlemen, you are very welcome to Proms In The Park 2012,

and in this Titanic Centenary Year, where else could we be

but here at Titanic Belfast,

with 7,000 of us packed into the slipway area

for an evening of memorable music to match this spectacular backdrop?

Absolutely. Tonight of course is a huge celebration of place,

history, heritage and culture,

supported by Belfast City Council and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board.

The orchestra opened this evening with the 633 Squadron,

and we felt that was very appropriate given that we are

so closely situated to our own aviation history.

So right on with the music.

Our first guest is a young woman,

versatile on the classical and the traditional flute.

She's played for kings and queens and heads of state and presidents,

but tonight she's playing for us,

so a big Titanic welcome please for Craigavon's finest, Eimear McGeown.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Eimear, that was absolutely stunning.

How did it feel to be first up there as our first performer this evening?

It was amazing, it really was, and it's good, cos now I can relax

and enjoy the rest of the concert, but, erm, yeah,

I'm just kind of on a bit of a buzz.

Lovely to have you here this evening. Thank you so much indeed.

Now, you all know the story about the visitor to New York who stopped

a passer-by in the street and said, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"

And the guy came, sharp as a New York tack,

"Practice, practice, practice."

Well, our next guest got a job as a receptionist at the Hall

in the hope that some passing impresario would listen

to his wonderful humming and give him a job.

He was, of course, a trained musician.

He did eventually win a place

on the coveted Adler Program at San Francisco Opera

and there he got the big break that everyone needs.

Ladies and gentlemen, a big warm Belfast welcome for Noah Stewart.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Nessun dorma

# Nessun dorma

# Tu pure, o Principessa

# Nella tua fredda stanza

# Guardi le stelle

# Che tremano d'amore

# E di speranza

# Ma il mio mistero e chiuso in me

# Il nome mio nessun sapra

# No, no!

# Sulla tua bocca

# Lo diro

# Quando la luce

# Splendera

# Ed il mio bacio

# Sciogliera il silenzio

# Che ti fa mia

# Dilegua, o notte

# Tramontate, stelle

# Tramontate, stelle

# # All'alba vincero

# Vincero

# Vincero! #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

They love it out there!

I can safely say

that you had every lady in the crowd swooning this evening.

HE LAUGHS Am I right, ladies?

-LADIES IN AUDIENCE:

-Yeah!

Love you guys. Love you ladies. Love everyone!

Everyone's been so friendly, and I grew up as a kid,

with the story of the Titanic.

So to be here, singing, where it all began, is pretty amazing.

-It's been a dream come true.

-Well, it has been lovely.

A dream come true for all of us here to have you here this evening.

Noah, for the moment, thank you very much indeed. Back to you, Noel.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

All the ladies swooning? She never says that about me.

Changing the mood completely now,

the Chronicles Of Narnia are, of course, children's classics,

written by CS Lewis,

who was brought up not far from here in East Belfast.

There are a number of stories,

a number of books in the series, of course,

but we're going to hear now Geoffrey Burgon's composition

for the most famous of them all,

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

It's always a great pleasure at Proms In The Park

to showcase local talent, and we're about to meet a man now

who's making a real name for himself.

Some of these guys have been together

since they were in their teens.

Right now, they're about to embark on a tour of the US and the UK

and to record a second album.

So, ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause please,

for Foy Vance.

# The scenery's changing

# And it warms my soul

# I'm 200 miles done

# And a long way yet to go

# So get your boots on

# And your walking coat

# We'll together leave our footprints out upon the virgin snow

# That ancient sunrise

# Will soon descend

# We'll be left here pondering on the things which we can't mend

# So let's start over

# With no means to an end

# Just an open-hearted hope And a closed hand full of friends

# Yeah, well, livin' was all right But I was dead in the water

# Couldn't see in its light I couldn't kneel at its altar

# All I wanted was to tear it right down to the ground

# But I'm feelin' all right now

# Yeah, I'm feelin' all right

# Every morning

# When the coffee's on

# I rediscover that colour of your eyes that is golden as bronze

# In the moonlight

# We'll get the candles going

# With the recitations of the parish poets on our tongues

# Yeah, well, it was all right But I was dead in the water

# Couldn't see in its light I couldn't kneel at its altar

# All I wanted was to tear it right down to the ground

# Oh, and I'm feeling all right now

# From the wolves and the vultures

# I want to hide it all away

# But I'm feelin' all right now

# Yeah, I'm feelin' all right

# I-I-I-II

# In the recitations of the parish poets

# In the building of the bowers and the long tables

# I will find my means to an end

# With an open-hearted hope

# And a closed hand full of friends

# In the recitations of the parish poets

# In the building with the bowers and the long tables

# Will find my means to an end

# With an open-hearted hope

# And a closed hand full of friends

# In the recitations of the parish poets

# In the building of the bowers and the long tables

# I will find my means to an end

# With an open-hearted hope

# And a closed hand full of friends. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Oh, well, the air is cold

# Yonder lies my sleeping soul

# Now the branches are broke like bones

# All this weakened tree no longer holds

# But the night is still

# And I have not yet lost my way

# And I will keep on movin' till

# I find my way home

# So when I need to get home

# You're my guiding light

# You're my guiding light

# When I need to get home

# You're my guiding light

# You're my guiding light

# When I need to get home

# You're my guiding light

# You're my guiding light

# When I need to get home

# You're my guiding light

# You're my guiding light

# So lead me home

# And lead me strong

# Like the road I walk on

# When I need to get home

# You're my guiding light

# You're my guiding light. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Well, what can I say about our next performers?

Francis I, well, he formed the original group.

Francis II, he only influenced Bob Dylan.

Francis III, he taught John Lennon to play the uilleann pipes.

And Francis IV, well, he has now formed the new supergroup.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Belfast's own McPeake.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

A very special person is going to join us on stage now.

He's my father, he's Francis McPeake III,

and I'm absolutely delighted for him to come on

and join us in this next song.

Please put your hands together for Francis McPeake.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Oh, the summer time is coming

# And the trees are sweetly blooming

# And the wild mountain thyme

# Grows around that blooming heather

# Will ye go, lassie, go?

# And I will build my love a tower

# By yon clear, crystal fountain

# And on it I'll pile

# All the flowers of the mountain

# Will ye go, lassie, go?

# And we'll all go together

# To pull wild mountain thyme

# All around the blooming heather

# Will ye go, lassie, go?

# And if my true love, she were gone

# I would surely find another

# To pull wild mountain thyme

# All around the blooming heather

# Will ye go, lassie, go?

# And we'll all go together

# To pull wild mountain thyme

# All around the blooming heather

# Will ye go, lassie, go?

# And we'll all go together

# To the wild mountain thyme

# All around the blooming heather

# Will ye go, lassie, go? #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you very much.

I think they enjoyed it out there.

Not a dry eye in the house, I imagine.

It's great to be able to come and play the Belfast song

to the Belfast people on such a night,

on such an occasion.

And thank you very much, and I hope you did enjoy it.

Francis IV, Francis III, lovely to have you here.

-Thank you very much for having us.

-Continued success. Thank you very much indeed.

APPLAUSE

Few people have made more impact on movie music than Marvin Hamlisch.

He's won Grammys, Oscars, Tonys, Pulitzers, Golden Globes -

you name it, he's won it for his more than 40 film scores.

We're going to hear the melancholic, the memorable, The Way We Were.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Not a dry eye in the house.

Let's liven things up a bit. Paul McCartney's Live And Let Die

is perhaps the most memorable of all the Bond themes.

Christopher, I want you to leave them stirred but not shaken.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Our next guest has been an international singing star

for a decade already,

although she's still only 25 years old.

Yes, unbelievable. She started out busking, would you believe,

in her native New Zealand,

but she is now her country's most successful ever recording artist.

Please give a big Belfast welcome to Hayley Westenra.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Whispers in a dream

# The world is quiet and waiting

# And all around the air is still

# Then sings the angel

# When all is come to pass

# The storm has breathed its last

# And the rain

# Has washed our fears away

# Love will fall

# Whispers in the wind

# The clouds part to let the light in

# And all around the people sigh

# As birds take to the sky

# When all is come to pass

# The storm has breathed its last

# And the rain

# Has washed our fears away

# Love will fall

# On us all

# The world will smile

# Again

# Whispers in a dream

# The world is quiet and waiting

# And all around the air is still

# Then sings the angel

# When all is come to pass

# The storm has breathed its last

# And the rain

# Has washed our fears away

# Love will fall

# On us all

# And we can smile

# Again. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you. How's everyone tonight?

CROWD CHEERS

It's so, so wonderful just to be here with you all in Belfast

at this very iconic place on such a beautiful evening.

I'm really, really thrilled to be back.

I've been here a few times and so I'm feeling...

I'm feeling quite at home here.

# I dreamed a dream in time gone by

# When hope was high and life worth living

# I dreamed that love would never die

# I dreamed that God would be forgiving

# I was young and unafraid

# And dreams were made and used and wasted

# There was no ransom to be paid

# No song unsung, no wine untasted

# But the tigers come at night

# With their voices soft as thunder

# As they tear your hope apart

# As they turn your dreams to shame

# He slept a summer by my side

# He filled my days with endless wonder

# He took my childhood in his stride

# But he was gone when autumn came

# And still I dream he'll come to me

# That we will live the years together

# But there are dreams that cannot be

# And there are storms we cannot weather

# I had a dream my life would be

# So different from this hell I'm living

# So different now from what it seemed

# Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you.

I want you all just to look around you

and think of this place that we are in, this very special place,

where the world's most famous ship set sail from in April 1912.

When the Titanic embarked on her maiden voyage,

the world was full of hope and awe,

and this next piece reflects beautifully

both the excitement and despair.

This is Titanic Suite.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer to Thee

# E'en though it be a cross

# That raiseth me

# Still all my song be

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer to Thee

# Though like the wanderer

# The sun gone down

# Darkness be over me

# My rest a stone

# Yet in my dreams I'd be

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer to Thee

# Or if on joyful wing

# Cleaving the sky

# Sun, moon, and stars forgot

# Upwards I fly

# Still all my song shall be

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer, my God, to Thee

# Nearer to Thee

# Nearer

# To Thee. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

So, ladies and gentlemen, we've had solemnity this evening,

we have always had that feeling of pride in the Titanic.

I think we've mirrored that pride in what has become of this site

and, indeed, how we have celebrated tonight.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Our thanks, as ever, to the Ulster Orchestra,

with their leader, Tomas Kocsis.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

And Christopher Bell!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Now, then, get ready to kick up your heels for Offenbach,

the Can-Can from Orpheus In The Underworld.

-From Proms In The Park, good night!

-Good night!

CHEERING

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