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HRH The Prince of Wales will attend the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 22 July where music composed, performed and conducted by Cambridge students and lecturers past and present will be celebrated.

The Prince of Wales attended Cambridge, where he studied Anthropology, Archaeology and History at Trinity College. He graduated in 1970. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh is the Chancellor of the University, a role he has held since 1976.

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms concert features 16 of the University's College choirs, along with Cambridge graduates Sir Andrew Davis, Simon Keenlyside and Thomas Trotter.

The programme includes works by Charles Villiers Stanford who, as Professor of Music, taught Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vaughan Williams wrote his Wasps overture for a university staging of Aristophanes' comedy of the same name, and later set verses by a former University Orator, George Herbert, in his Five Mystical Songs.

Graduates Jonathan Harvey (Come, Holy Ghost) and Judith Weir (Ascending Into Heaven) are also represented.

Camille Saint-Saens (Symphony No. 3, Organ) was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in 1893.

The concert also features the world première of The Genesis Of Secrecy, composed by Cambridge lecturer and Fellow of Corpus Christi College Ryan Wigglesworth and specially commissioned by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã for this concert.

Aged just 30, Wigglesworth makes a double Proms debut this season – as a composer for this Prom and as a conductor when he returns to co-conduct the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra in Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask Of Orpheus on Friday 14 August.

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Sir Andrew Davis on 22 July.

The choirs of St John's and King's Colleges are conducted by Andrew Nethsingha for Jonathan Harvey's Come Holy Ghost and by Stephen Cleobury in Judith Weir's Ascending Into Heaven.

The Cambridge Prom is broadcast live on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3.

Listings

Wednesday 22 July 2009, Royal Albert Hall and Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3, 8.00-10.30pm

• Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture
• Ryan Wigglesworth: The Genesis Of Secrecy
• Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
• Stanford: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A major
• Jonathan Harvey: Come Holy Ghost
• Judith Weir: Ascending Into Heaven
• Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3, Organ

• Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
• Thomas Trotter (organ)
• Choirs of King's and St John's colleges
• Choirs of Clare, Gonville and Caius, and Trinity colleges
• Choirs from combined Cambridge colleges
• Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
• Stephen Cleobury; Andrew Nethsingha (conductors)

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