Synopsis

James Naughtie will be providing live coverage of the concert's second half tonight. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis, will perform John Adams' Fanfare for Orchestra, Gershwin's Variations on "I Got Rhythm," Britten's Irish Reel, and an aria from Weber's opera *Der Freischütz*. The program will also include the traditional finale: Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea-Songs, Arne's "Rule, Britannia!", and Parry's "Jerusalem,