Line-up unveiled for Llanelli Proms
Plans have been announced for a musical extravaganza for Llanelli when the town will be invaded by a battalion of 250 musicians and singers for the 2012 Llanelli Proms.
The organisers of the Llanelli Proms are thrilled to announce that the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army Land Forces has given permission for the renowned Band and Bugles of The Rifles to participate at the Llanelli Proms for the first time.
The Llanelli Proms will also feature leading Welsh Male Choir, the Dunvant Male Choir (pictured below), who will join the Llanelli’s Hywel Girls’ Choir & Hywel Boy Singers and Llanelli Choral Society to form an vocal army of 200 massed voices.
“We are particularly excited with this year’s Llanelli Proms”, explains founder and conductor John Hywel Williams MBE. “To have such a great military band, the great male voices of Dunvant joining our local choral forces and the incredible Gweneth-Ann Jeffers all makes for a unique and exciting Proms this year.”
So, what can audiences expect this year at the 2012 Llanelli Proms? The inside word is that this year’s programme will be a bubbling musical pot of great Welsh and British patriotic numbers such as Calon Lan, Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia, highlights from the world of opera, musicals and cinema, roof-raising classics such as Battle Hymn of the Republic, Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance, Jerusalem and as a tribute to The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a 250 musician strong rendition of Vaughan Williams’ The Old Hundredth, as performed at The Queen’s Coronation in 1953.
Organisers are already surprised by the early demand for this year’s Proms with tickets already selling quickly.
The Llanelli Proms will be held on Saturday 19th May at the Selwyn Samuel Centre, Llanelli. Tickets are £15, £13 and available from Carol Coschignano on 01554 774822 or 07809 223909. Further information available from info@LlanelliProms.co.uk. www.LlanelliProms.co.uk.
The organisers of the Llanelli Proms are thrilled to announce that the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army Land Forces has given permission for the renowned Band and Bugles of The Rifles to participate at the Llanelli Proms for the first time.
The Llanelli Proms will also feature leading Welsh Male Choir, the Dunvant Male Choir (pictured below), who will join the Llanelli’s Hywel Girls’ Choir & Hywel Boy Singers and Llanelli Choral Society to form an vocal army of 200 massed voices.
The musical icing on the cake will be the exciting and renowned Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (pictured above), a soprano noted as one of the best of today’s British young singers with a commanding voice and vivid personality who has enjoyed great performances with the Royal Opera and BBC Proms with performances across Europe’s leading opera houses and venues including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opera Koln, Opera Zurich to name but a few.
With its exciting mix of leading military bands and major choral forces, the Llanelli Proms has become a highly popular flag-waving, horn-blowing festival of music for the county of Carmarthenshire and has enjoyed greetings from Prime Ministers and Her Majesty The Queen along the way. “We are particularly excited with this year’s Llanelli Proms”, explains founder and conductor John Hywel Williams MBE. “To have such a great military band, the great male voices of Dunvant joining our local choral forces and the incredible Gweneth-Ann Jeffers all makes for a unique and exciting Proms this year.”
So, what can audiences expect this year at the 2012 Llanelli Proms? The inside word is that this year’s programme will be a bubbling musical pot of great Welsh and British patriotic numbers such as Calon Lan, Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia, highlights from the world of opera, musicals and cinema, roof-raising classics such as Battle Hymn of the Republic, Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance, Jerusalem and as a tribute to The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a 250 musician strong rendition of Vaughan Williams’ The Old Hundredth, as performed at The Queen’s Coronation in 1953.
Organisers are already surprised by the early demand for this year’s Proms with tickets already selling quickly.
The Llanelli Proms will be held on Saturday 19th May at the Selwyn Samuel Centre, Llanelli. Tickets are £15, £13 and available from Carol Coschignano on 01554 774822 or 07809 223909. Further information available from info@LlanelliProms.co.uk. www.LlanelliProms.co.uk.
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