BBC Concert Orchestra 2007/08
BBC Concert Orchestra bring a varied season of concerts to Southbank Centre, opening with a performance of a new score written
by Will Gregory, famous as half of iconic duo Goldfrapp, which accompanies a screening of the 1924 classic silent film, He
Who Gets Slapped. The Orchestra celebrate the 60th birthday of its Conductor Laureate, Barry Wordsworth, with a lively programme
of Vaughan Williams, Ravel and Astor Piazzolla and the season ends with an all-Satie programme, including his famous Gymnopedies,
orchestrated by fellow French composer Debussy.
