Performances of Harold Arlen at BBC Music

Sat 22 Aug 2026

• 19:30

  Chineke! Orchestra with Angel Blue

  Royal Albert Hall

  The Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms under Jonathon Heyward, bringing with it Dvořák’s ecstatic hymn to nature, the Symphony No. 8, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with star American soprano Angel Blue

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  The Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms under Jonathon Heyward, bringing with it Dvořák’s ecstatic hymn to nature, the Symphony No. 8, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with star American soprano Angel Blue

  Programme

  • • • Edmund Thornton Jenkins
      • Dance Suite(15 mins)reconstr. & arr. Tuffus Zimbabwe; world premiere
    • • Samuel Barber
      • Knoxville: Summer of 1915(15 mins)
    • • George Gershwin
      • Our Love Is Here to Stay(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
    • • Harold Arlen
      • That Old Black Magic(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
    • • Richard Rodgers
      • My Funny Valentine(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
    • • Irving Berlin
      • Puttin’ On the Ritz(3 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
    • • interval
    • • Antonín Dvořák
      • Symphony No. 8 in G major(34 mins)

  Performers

  • Angel Blue

    soprano
    soprano
  • Chineke! Orchestra
  • Jonathon Heyward

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Edmund Thornton Jenkins
  • Samuel Barber
  • George Gershwin
  • Harold Arlen
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Irving Berlin
  • Antonín Dvořák

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  Part of

  Proms 2026 Choral music and opera