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Article: Arts: Proms 35-38 - Teenage kicks come to the Royal Albert Hall ROYAL ALBERT HALL LONDON/ RADIO 3
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2000
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WHATEVER ELSE might still be in store for us during this Proms
season, I guarantee in advance that nothing will match the
achievement of Saturday's Millennium Youth Day. The sheer
administrative work involved must have been a nightmare, not to
mention the constant ferrying of vast youthful forces in or out of
the Royal Albert Hall.
Kick-off was at 2.30pm, with the National Children's Orchestra and
Bernstein's Candide overture, followed by the National Children's
Wind Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra (top-notch in Respighi's The Birds),
Children's Choir, Youth Choir, Youth Brass Band, Youth Wind Orchestra
and, later on, a spectacular bonding of selected forces for Walton's
Belshazzar's Feast ...