The final concert in our Historic Times Season will be based around London and the Olympics. The programme will include medleys from Sweeney Todd and Oliver!, Bob Chilcott’s cantata Songs and Cries of London Town, Gareth Malone’s Sing London! and much more. We will also be performing The Timeless Way of Cities, by award-winning composer Raymond Yiu, which was written for Tamesis last year as a commission for the Whitley Arts Festival.

This event is included in the Reading Summer Proms Season Ticket.

Programme (PDF)

• Oliver, medley (Bart arr. Leyden)
• The timeless way of cities (Yiu)

• The Exercise of Music (Ayres)

• The Olympic Hymn (Samaras)
• Medley from Sweeney Todd (Sondheim arr. Beck)
• A London Medley (arr. Malone)
• Swimming over London (Chilcott)

• Songs and Cries of London Town (Chilcott)
  • Come Buy

• • The Flower of Cities All

• • London Bells

• • Composed upon Westminster Bridge

• • Good Morriw!