Name: Leicester: Gershwin and Marsalis with Nicola Benedetti
Start: 2023-11-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: De Montfort Hall

Organization

Conductor

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Instrumentalist

Nicola Benedetti

Violin

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leicester: Gershwin and Marsalis with Nicola Benedetti

Leicester

United Kingdom

De Montfort Hall

Leicester: Gershwin and Marsalis with Nicola Benedetti: Violin Concerto in D Major Marsalis (+2 More)

Public

Violin Concerto in D Major

Three Black Kings, for Soloist and Orchestra

Porgy and Bess, suite (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)

Approved

We bring our series Let Freedom Ring: Celebrating the Sounds of America to Leicester with music by three American composers bridging the worlds of classical music and jazz.

Outstanding violinist Nicola Benedetti joins us for a concert bridging the worlds of classical music and jazz.

Wynton Marsalis’s concerto, composed for her, embraces Celtic fiddle melodies and African-American spirituals, and ends with a foot-stomping hootenanny.

Duke Ellington’s Three Black Kings, for jazz band and orchestra, is a tribute to Martin Luther King.

English

Leicester: Gershwin and Marsalis with Nicola Benedetti by Marsalis, Ellington, D., Gershwin, Ó (2023/2023), Seoltóir Santtu-Matias Rouvali, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid