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<font color="#ffffff">Antonio Vivaldi's Summer.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">MUSIC: Summer</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by Antonio Vivaldi</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">You probably know it, and you might</font>
<font color="#ffffff">be one of the millions who love it.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Astor Piazzolla's Summer.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">MUSIC: Summer</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by Astor Piazzolla</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">You might not know it but,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by the end of this evening,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">you will almost certainly love it.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Tonight, Joshua Bell presents</font>
<font color="#ffffff">The Four Seasons - served two ways.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Welcome to the BBC Proms!</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">A very warm welcome from</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the Royal Albert Hall</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">on this summer's evening.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Tonight, two men who lived</font>
<font color="#ffffff">centuries and continents apart</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">are brought together by one</font>
<font color="#ffffff">very famous piece of music -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">The Four Seasons.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Its composer - and perhaps</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the finest violinist of his age -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Vivaldi wrote intricate concertos</font>
<font color="#ffffff">which challenged the soloist</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">to show off just what</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the violin could do.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">First heard in the 1720s,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">The Four Seasons will be directed</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and performed tonight</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">by a virtuoso of our own age -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the American violinist Joshua Bell -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">together with the chamber orchestra,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">The Academy of St Martin</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in the Fields.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Vivaldi's simple but brilliant</font>
<font color="#ffffff">premise has inspired</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">countless other musicians, including</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the 20th-century Argentinian</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">composer and performer</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Astor Piazzolla.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Infused with his trademark</font>
<font color="#ffffff">tango sound, Piazzolla started</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">composing his Seasons in 1965 for</font>
<font color="#ffffff">performance with his tango band.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We mark what would have been</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Piazzolla's centenary year</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">with a performance of his</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Four Seasons Of Buenos Aires</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">arranged for solo violin</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and strings.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joshua Bell will interweave</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the two different takes</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">on the Four Seasons</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in what promises to be</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">one extraordinary evening of music.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joining me this evening</font>
<font color="#ffffff">is Guillermo Willis,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the Argentinian music specialist</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">who regularly performs</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in the tango clubs of London.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Guillermo, welcome to The Proms.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Good evening, it's my pleasure</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to be here tonight.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, you're the man to ask -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">why is Piazzolla</font>
<font color="#ffffff">such an important composer?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Well, Piazzolla was so rooted</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">into the tango from</font>
<font color="#ffff00">the '30s and the '40s</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and the tango orchestra's music.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">But he actually brought together</font>
<font color="#ffff00">some influences from jazz,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">from classical music, as well.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And he created new compositions,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">something different,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">that was not only able to be</font>
<font color="#ffff00">danced in a tango hall,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">but also listened to in a concert.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">What does tango mean to</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Argentinians?</font><font color="#ffff00"> Personally...</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I like saying it's...somehow</font>
<font color="#ffff00">like the soundtrack of the city</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">of Buenos Aires. People - as me -</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that come from there,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">we are usually able</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to quote tango lyrics</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">in any occasion that merits it.</font>
<font color="#ffffff">JOSIE CHUCKLES</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">But usually what tango means...</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Tango unfolded with the city,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">as well, during the 20th century,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">with the immigration currents,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">as well,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">so it took its shape</font>
<font color="#ffff00">at the same time as the city.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">There's a saying, isn't there,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in Argentina -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">that "everything may change,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">except the tango".</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Piazzolla flew</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in the face of this rule</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">by creating what</font>
<font color="#ffffff">he called New Tango.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">As he told the BBC in 1990,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">his defiance came with some</font>
<font color="#ffffff">dangerous consequences.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">My music has</font>
<font color="#00ffff">all the primitive tango,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">from the bordellos until today.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">I try to do good music</font>
<font color="#00ffff">but, underneath that, I think</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">it's in my blood that</font>
<font color="#00ffff">I am a man of tango.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">The old, traditional tango</font>
<font color="#00ffff">was very boring.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">There have been no changes in that</font>
<font color="#00ffff">music for at least 40 or 50 years -</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">until</font><font color="#ffffff"> I</font><font color="#00ffff"> come in.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">And when I come in, I'm taking</font>
<font color="#00ffff">away the tango, that people...</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">In 1954, it was like a war.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">They were all against me</font>
<font color="#00ffff">in that moment.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">They gave me a beating</font>
<font color="#00ffff">once in the street</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">because I was changing the music.</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">And if you decided to change music,</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">you better know something</font>
<font color="#00ffff">about boxing or a little karate</font>

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<font color="#00ffff">and all that -</font>
<font color="#00ffff">it's very important, too.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Dangerous stuff.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, Piazzolla might have changed</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the music, but he kept centre stage</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the instrument that is considered</font>
<font color="#ffffff">to be the soul of tango.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We saw Piazzolla</font>
<font color="#ffffff">playing the bandoneon -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">which is apparently so difficult</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">that he once described it</font>
<font color="#ffffff">as "diabolical".</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Guillermo didn't let</font>
<font color="#ffffff">that put him off -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">you learnt the bandoneon</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and you have it there.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Can we hear you play a little bit?</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Sure - why not?</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Bravo. You can see its</font>
<font color="#ffffff">organ origins, can't you?</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">It does look a little bit like</font>
<font color="#ffffff">an accordion.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Is it related to the accordion?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Well, it's closely related.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">It works the same way, but the</font>
<font color="#ffff00">quality of sound is different.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">As you were saying,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">the organ quality of sound.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">But there are also different</font>
<font color="#ffff00">timbres between the left hand</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and the right hand.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">This one sounds mellower.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">The right hand sounds</font>
<font color="#ffff00">brilliant, really.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And there is also a different</font>
<font color="#ffff00">arrangement of the batons,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">which makes it very complicated</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to get into the first scales</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">when you're learning the instrument.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">How did you come to play</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the bandoneon?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Well, I remember being a teenager</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and hearing this</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">magnificent musician playing</font>
<font color="#ffff00">a solo arrangement for bandoneon,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">of Astor Piazzolla,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and I was captivated about it.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And then I knew I needed</font>
<font color="#ffff00">to get an instrument myself</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and then started learning it.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">But I guess most musicians</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of my generation were inspired</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">in the same way by Astor Piazzolla's</font>
<font color="#ffff00">music and compositions.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, of course,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">he arranged his Four Seasons</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">to play on the bandoneon</font>
<font color="#ffffff">with his tango band.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">So can we hear a little bit now</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of the original composition?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Sure, I'm going to be playing the</font>
<font color="#ffff00">theme of the Summer of Buenos Aires.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">OK, yeah.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">What a powerful sound.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, tonight, we will hear</font>
<font color="#ffffff">The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">in an arrangement for solo violin</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and strings made in the 1990s</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">after Piazzolla's death by the</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Tango grew out of the multicultural</font>
<font color="#ffffff">melting pot that was Buenos Aires,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and the violin has been a part</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of tango since its earliest days.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We spoke to tonight's musical</font>
<font color="#ffffff">director and soloist, Joshua Bell,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">about the violin's ability to</font>
<font color="#ffffff">conjure vastly different worlds.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">You do see the violin</font>
<font color="#ffff00">in so many cultures in their music,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and I think it's because the violin</font>
<font color="#ffff00">is so close to the human voice,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and not only can it do what a voice</font>
<font color="#ffff00">does, it has a much wider range.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">A musician is an explorer in a way,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and we explore different kinds</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of music and that's what I enjoy.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And getting outside of your comfort</font>
<font color="#ffff00">zone is also very important</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">as an artist, and not just to do</font>
<font color="#ffff00">what you're comfortable with.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Both the Piazzolla the and Vivaldi</font>
<font color="#ffff00">allow for embellishments</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and ornamentation and improvisation.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">There will be things in the moment</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that I might do on stage</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">that the orchestra</font>
<font color="#ffff00">might not have heard before.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">The Vivaldi and the Piazzolla make</font>
<font color="#ffff00">the violin and the other instruments</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">in the orchestra do things</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that you might not normally hear.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">The Vivaldi is full of these effects</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that evoke the seasons.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And then there's icy sounds that we</font>
<font color="#ffff00">do by playing closer to the bridge</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">or windy sounds that we play by</font>
<font color="#ffff00">playing more over the fingerboard.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">There's a dog barking</font>
<font color="#ffff00">that the viola plays.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">In the Piazzolla, we do very a</font>
<font color="#ffff00">crunchy sound and we slap the bass.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Piazzolla really does</font>
<font color="#ffff00">all kinds of fun things</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and I think Vivaldi</font>
<font color="#ffff00">would have enjoyed it.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And I think the audience</font>
<font color="#ffff00">will get a kick out of it.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I hope to bring even a laugh.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">So this programme tonight</font>
<font color="#ffff00">really shows a lot,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I think, that the violin can do.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">In tonight's concert,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joshua and the orchestra will</font>
<font color="#ffffff">interweave Vivaldi's Four Seasons</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">with Piazzolla's Argentinian</font>
<font color="#ffffff">take on the classic work.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We start in Vivaldi's Spring,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">move onto Piazzolla's Summer,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">followed by Vivaldi's Summer,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and continue alternating</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">through the year before we complete</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the cycle in Piazzolla's Spring.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Now, remarkable</font>
<font color="#ffffff">as it sounds to us today,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Vivaldi's work fell into obscurity</font>
<font color="#ffffff">after his death,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">before a chance rediscovery</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in the 20th century.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Baroque music</font>
<font color="#ffffff">- and Vivaldi especially -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">exploded in popularity</font>
<font color="#ffffff">in the '60s -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the decade when Piazzolla</font>
<font color="#ffffff">started composing his own Seasons.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">So if you listen very carefully,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">there are subtle Vivaldi-esque</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">traces in Piazzolla's</font>
<font color="#ffffff">original compositions -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">most obviously at the end of Winter,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">when Pachelbel's Canon</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">even makes a cameo appearance!</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Then, when Leonid Desyatnikov</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">arranged The Four Seasons</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of Buenos Aires in the '90s,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">he applied a bit of artistic license</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and explicitly "Vivaldified"</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Piazzolla's piece</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">by weaving in about 15 musical</font>
<font color="#ffffff">quotes from Vivaldi's Seasons -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">so there's plenty of these</font>
<font color="#ffffff">to listen out for this evening.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">We're looking forward to it,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">aren't we, Guillermo?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I'm looking forward to it -</font>
<font color="#ffff00">yes, absolutely.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joshua Bell, tonight's soloist</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and Music Director of the Academy</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of St Martin in the Fields.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">He'll be directing its string</font>
<font color="#ffffff">orchestra from the violin.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">They'll perform Antonio Vivaldi's</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Four Seasons</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and Astor Piazzolla's</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Cuatro Estaciones Portenas -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">which translates to</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">It was arranged for violin</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and strings by Leonid Desyatnikov.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">They begin tonight in Italy</font>
<font color="#ffffff">with Vivaldi's Spring.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">SCATTERED APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE CONTINUES</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">HARPSICHORD PLAYS VIVALDI</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">GENTLE LAUGHTER</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joshua Bell and the Academy</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of St Martin in the Fields</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">complete their marathon</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">with Spring from The Four Seasons</font>
<font color="#ffffff">of Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">It rounds off tonight's</font>
<font color="#ffffff">commemoration</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">of Piazzolla's centenary year.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Of course, they also performed</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Vivaldi's timeless classic,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">The Four Seasons - a piece</font>
<font color="#ffffff">he continues to return to,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">saying that the scope for</font>
<font color="#ffffff">ornamentation and improvisation</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">ensures no two performances</font>
<font color="#ffffff">are the same.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">What an astonishing performer he is.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">This is a piece</font>
<font color="#ffffff">written to show off the violin -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">well, Joshua Bell is your man</font>
<font color="#ffffff">to do that, isn't he, Guillermo?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">It was wonderful,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">it was absolutely amazing,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">what he managed to do</font>
<font color="#ffff00">with the violin tonight.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And the whole orchestra.</font><font color="#ffffff"> The whole</font>
<font color="#ffffff">orchestra - I couldn't agree more.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">He said he wanted to make</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the audience laugh -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">well, that cheeky harpsichord at</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the end certainly did the trick.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">A standing ovation</font>
<font color="#ffffff">for Joshua this evening -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and well deserved.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">What an energetic, engaging</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and elegant performance that was.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Beautiful cello solos in that piece</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">from the guest principal cellist</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Caroline Dale.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">The orchestra were, in fact,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">the first to perform Vivaldi's</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Four Seasons as a complete cycle</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">at The Proms back in 1984.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">So it's only fitting that</font>
<font color="#ffffff">they do it again for us today.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Come on, Joshua,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">take another bow - you deserve it!</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">I can't thank you all enough</font>
<font color="#ffff00">for coming out tonight.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">This is the first time</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I'm playing with this orchestra</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">in about a year and a half</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and I'm so happy to be back.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">CHEERING AND APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">For us to play for all of you</font>
<font color="#ffff00">- and thank you for coming out -</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">it's just a... It's very moving</font>
<font color="#ffff00">and a wonderful experience for us</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">in this incredible venue,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">so thank you so much.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And we have a tiny little extra</font>
<font color="#ffff00">piece to play for you tonight.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE, CHEERING</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">Tonight you've heard</font>
<font color="#ffff00">two Summers so far,</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">and we have another one that's,</font>
<font color="#ffff00">I think, appropriate -</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">at least in title.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">It's another beloved piece</font>
<font color="#ffff00">of - this time -</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">the great American composer</font>
<font color="#ffff00">George Gershwin.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">MURMURS OF RECOGNITION</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">This is...</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">..Summertime.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">APPLAUSE</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">MUSIC: Summertime</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by George Gershwin</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">A perfect encore - Summertime by the</font>
<font color="#ffffff">American composer George Gershwin.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Written for Porgy and Bess - his</font>
<font color="#ffffff">1935 opera set in South Carolina.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Tonight's performance</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by Joshua Bell,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">who also directed the strings of the</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Academy of St Martin in the Fields.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Joshua Bell is a Proms regular,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and 20 years ago at The Proms</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">he performed for the first time</font>
<font color="#ffffff">on his beloved</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">It was a brave move, as he'd only</font>
<font color="#ffffff">just come across it by chance</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">earlier that very same day</font>
<font color="#ffffff">at a violin shop in London!</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">He loved it immediately</font>
<font color="#ffffff">and vowed to buy it -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">which he did, soon after the Prom.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">How he can make</font>
<font color="#ffffff">that instrument sing!</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Tonight's Prom has celebrated</font>
<font color="#ffffff">virtuoso performers</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">of the past and present -</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Vivaldi and Joshua on violin</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and Piazzolla on the bandoneon.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, that was simply wonderful.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Thank you to my guest,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Guillermo Willis, who's joined me</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">on that astounding musical journey</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">through the seasons of Italy, Buenos</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Aires, and finally Summer in the US.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Guillermo, was that</font>
<font color="#ffffff">a fitting celebration of Piazzolla</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">in his centenary year?</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">It was more than fitting.</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">And it's not simply just putting</font>
<font color="#ffff00">Piazzolla along with Vivaldi -</font>

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<font color="#ffff00">it makes people more interested</font>
<font color="#ffff00">each time in Piazzolla's music.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">I absolutely agree.</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Well, thank you so much.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Well, we're back on BBC Four</font>
<font color="#ffffff">on Sunday next,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">when Katie Derham presents</font>
<font color="#ffffff">the ever-popular Family Prom -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">this year featuring the seven</font>
<font color="#ffffff">talented Kanneh-Mason siblings</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">in The Carnival of the Animals</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by Saint-Saens.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">Children's author Sir Michael</font>
<font color="#ffffff">Morpurgo joins them on stage,</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">alongside poet Lemn Sissay.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">And don't forget,</font>
<font color="#ffffff">there's a Prom every evening</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">between now and the Last Night</font>
<font color="#ffffff">- on 11 September -</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">and you can listen live</font>
<font color="#ffffff">to every concert on BBC Radio 3</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">or BBC Sounds, and watch every</font>
<font color="#ffffff">televised Prom on the BBC iPlayer.</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">But, for now - from what's been</font>
<font color="#ffffff">a memorable summer's night</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">in the Royal Albert Hall -</font>
<font color="#ffffff">goodnight!</font>

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<font color="#ffffff">MUSIC: Winter</font>
<font color="#ffffff">by Astor Piazzolla</font>


