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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 14 JULY 2019 7 THIS WEEK MUSIC THE mission of the BBC Concert Or- chestra is to bring inspiring musical ex- periences to everyone, everywhere, with the ensemble's great versatility as the key. The orchestra can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night and for BBC Radio 3 it profiles classical masterpieces in an entertaining way. 'Friday Night Is Music Night' is the world's longest running orchestral live music show. For over sixty years it has celebrated music from every genre - classical, film, opera, jazz, operetta and musical theatre, attracting the top sing- ers, instrumentalists, conductors, and presenters from stage, film and televi- sion. Malta is a major Mediterranean movie star. Over a hundred spectacular films have been shot on the island including Popeye, The Da Vinci Code, Midnight Express, Troy, The Spy Who Loved Me, Never Say Never Again and Gladi- ator. Ancient Mdina has also famously served as a principal location for the sensational, Game of Thrones. This spectacular concert, with its seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Richard Balcombe, fea- tures music from movies shot in Malta. It will also include other classic film scores, Out Of Africa and The Magnifi- cent Seven, together with some of to- day's most popular film songs from The Greatest Showman, Bohemian Rhapso- dy, Frozen and Mary Poppins Returns. All of this, and a spectacular fireworks finale to the Main Title from Star Wars. The concert will spotlight guest vocal- ists Louise Dearman (Wicked); Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones) and Bradley Jaden (Les Miserables). The BBC Concert Orchestra will be performing on 17 July at the Granaries in Floriana. Lights! Camera! Malta! Hannah Waddingham and Louise Dearman