Traitors star and Ted Lasso actor Nick Mohammed will host the Bond and Beyond Prom on 25 August, that includes biggest hits from Skyfall and The Spy Who Loved Me, amongst others.
A season of American music will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence – together with an American Classics Prom with music by Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland.
Californian soprano Angel Blue will be part of the Chineke! Orchestra for a promenade that features music by the Charleston-born composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins, certainly one of the first folks to introduce parts of jazz and spirituals into the classical repertoire.
The American repertoire comes at a time when the so-called special relationship between the UK and US is under scrutiny.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Proms director Sam Jackson stated the live shows have been deliberate two years in the past, earlier than the Presidential election.
“What we didn’t know then was the way in which world events – particularly those relating to the USA – would take an, at times, unprecedented course,” he stated.
However, he added: “I believe strongly that the potency and power of classical music, and the stories of those who compose it, should be shared with a broad audience.
“What’s extra, we should not permit our present geopolitical local weather to stifle tradition, or to dissuade us from championing music of each the previous and the current. Great artwork cannot be cancelled.”
