BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 30: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Presented by Geoffrey Smith, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. A concert of 20th-century Americana featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Kristjan Jarvi. To mark the opening of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing tonight, Jarvi launches the programme with Michael Torke's Javelin, written for the 1994 games, which is followed by John Adams's evocation of Richard Nixon's visit to China in the 1970s. Young cellist Han-Na Chang joins the orchestra for Three Mediations from Bernstein's personal and thought-provoking theatre piece Mass, while New York finally comes to town with a jazz work by Duke Ellington. Han-Na Chang (cello) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Kristjan Jarvi (conductor) Michael Torke: Javelin John Adams: The Chairman Dances Bernstein: Three Meditations (Mass) Ellington: Harlem.