6.15pm Proms Intro
To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, Louise Fryer hosts a discussion with past and present
Directors of Music at King's College – Sir David Willcocks and Stephen Cleobury – alongside Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge and composer Ryan Wigglesworth.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
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We celebrate Cambridge University's 800th anniversary with a concert of music given by a convocation of the university's college choirs and two soloists and a conductor who are among its graduates. As Professor of Music, Stanford taught Vaughan Williams, who wrote his Wasps overture for a university staging of Aristophanes' comedy, and later set verses by a former University Orator, George Herbert, in his Five Mystical Songs .
Jonathan Harvey – who this year celebrates his 70th birthday – and Judith Weir also studied at Cambridge. Ryan Wigglesworth went to Oxford but is now a Cambridge lecturer and fellow of Corpus Christi College: in a Proms double debut this season, he returns to co-conduct the BBC SO in Prom 39 . Saint-Saëns was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in 1893.
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