A Kind of Magic will descend over Bournemouth's leafy Meyrick Park on Friday, August 3, as it explodes into an electrifying evening of fully orchestrated anthetic rock.

In a mesmerising mixture of music, fireworks and lights the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's will set the mercury rising with a Symphonic Queen Spectacular.

The concert is the first of two open-air shows being staged by the orchestra at Meyrick Park this weekend.

On Friday the entire BSO and four top singers from West End shows, will stage all the hits from the Queen's legendary repertoire.

In the spotlight will be MiG Ayesa, Kerry Ellis, Mazz Murray and Chris Holland, all of whom have starring roles from Ben Elton's smash hit musical We Will Rock You on their CVs.

With this star-studded cast of Queen aficionados, conductor Pete Harrison has confessed that being commissioned for the concert is a real honour and a high point in his life - second only to seeing Queen themselves in 1982 at the Milton Keynes Bowl when he should have been revising for his O-Levels. Pete has worked extensively in the West End conducting shows that have included Crazy for You and Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Saturday night sees another amazing Meyrick Park performance but a change of style which is perhaps just a little closer to home for the BSO when they deliver a video and light spectacular version of Tchaikovsky's rousing 1812 Overture A fiery frenzy of video, fireworks and lasers will illuminate the dusk sky on as the BSO soar into action with a piece carefully choreographed by the team behind this year's renowned Sony Bravia TV campaign, The dynamic show includes 16 electrical fire explosions in place of the celebrated canon shots.

Charismatic Romanian conductor Nicolae Moldoveanu will also lead the orchestra through music by Dvorák, Sibelius and Mendelssohn to open the concert, as well as Mussorgksy's A Night on Bare Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition.

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