BBC Electric Proms premieres new rock opera

"Radio 1 and Radio 2 play to more than 20 million listeners each week. That's a lot of people who like music," Lorna Clarke of the BBC says. "The idea is that we could raise that to the status of the kind of work that happens in the classical music world. If you are serious about classical music, you absolutely know what the BBC does in terms of that genre. We want a companion to that." This electronic counterpart to the

So The Who are premiering their new rock opera Wire & Glass, James Brown gets a full choir, and Damon Albarn (photo above) and Paul Simonon showcase work from their new project The Good, The Bad and The Queen. Fatboy Slim plays in what is essentially a pub, and Kasabian and the Guillemots will perform with the BBC Concert Orchestra. "It is ambitious, but you have to recognise that young people need a deeper experience and access to live performances," Clarke says.
For full details of the BBC Electric Proms follow this link. Great to see the BBC actively encouraging access to live music, and equally as great to see the legendary Roundhouse in London, venue of so many ground-breaking Boulez concerts in the 1970s, lovingly restored and once again hosting cutting-edge concerts, all of which gives me a back-link to The Year is '72.
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