Keith Lockhart goes to Hollywood at Prom

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It can give a convincing impersonation of a Broadway house band, a skill that paid dividends in a brash performance of Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and gave extra punch to Graham Fitkin’s PK, receiving its world premiere. The dot-dash rhythms of Morse code inspired the piece, which was written for the Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus, a mighty gathering of amateurs that required a dozen conductors. Its exuberant simplicity was infectious.

The most moving works were more typical Proms fare. The misty-eyed melancholy of George Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow was given full weight, while the second and third of William Walton’s Four Cornish Dances were as sombre and mysterious as Britten’s Sea Interludes. They provided a stark contrast to a Hollywood sing-along that got gutsier as it went on. As Time Goes By and Over the Rainbow went well enough, but 5,000 voices singing Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head was enough to chill the warmest heart.

BBC Concert Orchestra/BBC Proms Family Orchestra And Chorus: Prom 60
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP