• BBC Orchestras and Singers refers collectively to a number of orchestras, choirs and other musical ensembles, maintained by the BBC. All of the BBC’s...
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  • Groups, the BBC Singers are based at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. The only full-time professional British choir, the BBC Singers feature in live...
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    orchestras. The BBC NOW is the only professional symphony orchestra organisation in Wales, occupying a dual role as both a broadcasting orchestra and...
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    station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular...
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  • symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. The BBC SO is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The orchestra was...
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  • Welsh Singers Showcase represents Wales in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The competition is judged by a panel of distinguished singers, musicians...
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  • The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) is a Scottish broadcasting symphony orchestra based in Glasgow. One of five full-time orchestras maintained...
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  • Radio Orchestra had its own real identity and was known as the BBC Radio Big Band. The orchestra’s primary function was to accompany popular singers in ‘cover...
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  • with other national and international orchestras. In its early years, the BBC worked on developing its choral output, founding the BBC Wireless Chorus, a...
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  • accompanying singers such as Moira Anderson. The London-based BBC Variety and BBC Revue Orchestras were merged in 1965 to form the BBC Radio Orchestra, so at...
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    hour sections on 24 January 1938. List of radio orchestras BBC Orchestras and Singers BBC Radio Orchestra "Sidonie Goossens". The Telegraph. Lloyd, Stephen...
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  • Beecham; a vocal octet, the BBC Wireless Singers, was created using Wireless Chorus singers as a semi-separate entity; and in 1928 a full sized symphony...
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  • BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus based in London, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow, the BBC Philharmonic...
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  • BBC Television which includes BBC Red Button BBC Radio BBC iPlayer BBC Online BBC Earth Films BBC Films BBC Orchestras and Singers S4C Foxtel and BBC...
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    culture and the arts. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers...
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  • full-time permanent orchestras, as well as a full-time chamber choir, the BBC Singers and the BBC Big Band. Denmark also maintains orchestra in the form of...
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    Benjamin Appl (category 21st-century German male opera singers)
    Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra of India, Vienna Symphony, and on multiple occasions with the major BBC Orchestras and Singers. He made his Proms debut...
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    work with orchestras, opera companies, ballet companies and choral groups. Conducting orchestras has been called a glass ceiling by the BBC. Conlon, Joan...
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    Julian Ovenden (category 21st-century English singers)
    January 2016. "BBC – Proms – Julian Ovenden". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 25 January 2016. RTÉ. "RTÉ Orchestras: RTÉ Concert Orchestra New Year's Eve...
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    conductor, and if not the current serving Chief Conductor, one who had an association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra or one of the other BBC orchestras. Charles...
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  • the BBC, writing for the BBC Variety and BBC Revue Orchestras. In the 1960s, these two orchestras were amalgamated to form the BBC Radio Orchestra. Fox...
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    orchestras include youth orchestras made up of students from an elementary school, a high school, or a university, and community orchestras; typically they are...
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  • European, American and Australian orchestras included the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic...
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    Initially, the BBC Big Band was formed of contracted BBC staff, as with all of the BBC’s orchestras. However, following an agreement reached in 1994, the...
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  • Roderick Williams (category 20th-century Black British male singers)
    Hallé Orchestra, Choir and Youth Choir cond. Sir Mark Elder 2011/12 CD HLL 7535 Ring Dance of the Nazarene/The Moth Requiem Birtwistle BBC Singers, The...
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    Henry Hall (bandleader) (category BBC Orchestras)
    Bogeyman" and "Teddy Bears' Picnic" with his BBC Orchestra, featuring singer Val Rosing on vocals. The latter song gained enormous popularity and sold over...
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    funk band. She also made a name for herself as one of the UK's session singers at that time. Saward also had a brief stint with a musical group of all...
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  • pre-King's Singers group. In 1984, the members of the King's Singers (who at the time included three founding members: Alastair Hume, Anthony Holt, and Simon...
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  • The orchestra’s been together a good 15 years and its make-up is very specific. It’s modelled on the old contract movie orchestras in America. And that's...
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  • Alexander Melnikov (pianist) (category BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists)
    Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. As a soloist, Melnikov has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester...
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