Name: Afternoon Performance: John Wilson Conducts ‘Appalachian Spring’
Start: 2018-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Wilson

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Ning Feng

Violin

Afternoon Performance: John Wilson Conducts ‘Appalachian Spring’

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

Overture to The School for Scandal, op. 5

Serenade for violin, percussion and strings

Appalachian Spring

Symphony No. 3

Jnanakumar P

Approved

Bright colours, new hopes, and endless horizons. If you could set the American Dream to music, it’d probably sound very like Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring – the 1944 frontier ballet that took the old hymn ‘Tis The Gift to Be Simple and sent it out into the world. It’s the calm, strong centre to John Wilson’s exploration of American music in the 20th century – a concert that ranges from the jazz age sheen of Barber’s comedy overture to Leonard Bernstein’s deliciously sophisticated take on Plato, in the form of a violin concerto. And to finish, a leading candidate for the title of the definitive Great American Symphony: Roy Harris’s taut, muscular Third.

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Afternoon Performance: John Wilson Conducts ‘Appalachian Spring’ by Barber, Bernstein, Copland, Harris, Roy, Thu 15 Mar 2018, From (2018/2018), Conductor John Wilson, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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