Mackerras Tributes at BBC Proms

The BBC Proms has announced that Manchester Camerata's Music Director Douglas Boyd will replace the late Sir Charles Mackerras to conduct the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's prom on Thursday 29 July.  The late night prom - featuring Dvorak's Serenade in D minor for winds, cello and double bass, opus 44, and Mozart's Gran Partita serenade - is one of two which would have been conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras who died last week at the age of 84. Douglas Boyd played oboe for Mackerras when he conducted Brahms's First Symphony with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Read more. There's an interesting article in the Guardian newspaper about Mackerras and the Proms tributes which you can read by clicking here.