Perennial highlight of Durban’s music calendar’s set to dazzle audiences

THE Last Night of the Proms Concert, presented by the British Cultural and Heritage Association is set to raise the rafters this year when the eagerly anticipated show opens at the The Playhouse Opera Theatre on Sunday, 22 October at 3pm.

South Africa’s ‘Mr Music’, Richard Cock, returns to podium to lead the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra, who will be flanked by the Durban Symphonic Choir and the combined choirs of Danville Girls’ High, Durban Girls’ High and Northwood School. The solo spots fall on violinist, Amy Luo and flautist, Tatiana Thaele, and also stalwarts, the KZN Pipes and Drums, and Celtic dancers Melissa and Samantha Wood from the KZN Academy of Celtic Dance.

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Richard Cock has put together a bumper programme of favourites, which he will introduce in his own inimitable style. Show-stopping items include: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers; a McCartney medley and the Concerto Alla Ungarese by Oscar Ries.

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Paul McCartney’s Mull of Kintyre opens the second half of the show, followed successively by Dizzy Gillespie’s exotic A Night in Tunisia; the Joplin classic, Maple Leaf Rag; a cover of the 1984 Leonard Cohen hit, Hallelujah, sung by Durban Girls’ College Grade 10 singer, Jaime Davies.

Tickets range from R140 to R210. Tickets are available through Computicket or by calling the Playhouse Box Office on 031 369 9540 or 031-369 9596.