Name: Awaken the Sleeper – American music for our time
Start: 2022-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

André J Thomas

Instrumentalist

Ben Thomson

London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Awaken the Sleeper – American music for our time

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Awaken the Sleeper – American music for our time: Concert Various

Public

Portrait of a Queen

Tuba Concerto

To Awaken the Sleeper

Approved

André J Thomas delivers a despatch from the front line of Black classical music in the US – including Wynton Marsalis’ dramatic new Tuba Concerto.

One woman crosses centuries: a musical story of injustice, courage and enduring strength. A narrator and an orchestra lead a meditation, based on the words of James Baldwin, on the world as it is – and as it could be. And a jazz icon takes the lowest instrument in the orchestra – the tuba – and makes it a star. This is music that speaks straight to the heart about the stories that matter right now.

André J Thomas is one of the most inspiring forces in modern American music: a composer, a conductor and a world expert on the Gospel tradition. His energy and commitment make him a perfect partner for the LSO’s Principal Tuba Ben Thomson in Wynton Marsalis’ new Tuba Concerto.

‘We are living in a world in which everybody and everything is interdependent ... The future of this world depends on everyone in this room.’~
James Baldwin (from To Awaken the Sleeper)

Carlos Simon Portrait of a Queen 
Wynton Marsalis Tuba Concerto (UK premiere) 
-Interval- 
Joel Thompson To Awaken the Sleeper

English

Awaken the Sleeper – American music for our time by Simon, Carlos, Marsalis, Thompson, Joel, Fra (2022/2022), Dirigent André J Thomas, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

Forestilling krediteringer (Medvirkende & Produktionshold )

Ensemble

Program, Information & Oversigt

Fotos

Yderligere læsning

Forestillingsdatoer og spillesteder

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