Prom 25

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Nancarrow, Conlon (1912-1997)	Player Piano Study no. 7 (arr. YE Mikhashoff)
Zappa, Frank (1940-1993)	G-Spot Tornado
Glass, Philip (b. 1937)	Symphony no. 10 (UK première)
Zappa, Frank (1940-1993)	The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

Performers

Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon	Conductor
Christopher Purves	Bass
Mitch Benn	Narrator

Trend-mongers, philosophers and hunchmen.
A car-chase, a love-in and a replica mahogany desk.
A coughing mountain, a choir of stenographers and
an exceptional swine-pig called Greggery. Nicholas
Collon and the Aurora Orchestra give the first
Proms performance of Frank Zappa’s high-energy
counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery
Peccary. An arrangement of a zany
Nancarrow study and the UK premiere
of Philip Glass’s 10th Symphony
complete a far-out late-night
happening from one of Britain’s most
vivacious young orchestras.

Tickets £12 - £16.

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Prom 25: The Aurora Orchestra do Zappa, Nancarrow and Glass

Paul Kilbey, 5th August

It would probably be a mistake to take Frank Zappa’s The Adventures of Greggery Peccary too seriously. True, musically it is highly taxing in its orchestral transcription by Ali N. Askin, and there’s absolutely no denying the seriousness of Zappa as a musician generally. But this is Zappa in full-on nonsense mode.Greggery Peccary is a pig of some sort, who works in an office, or something.

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