Name: New conducts American dreams and sonic fireworks
Start: 2023-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Gemma New

Instrumentalist

Lise de la Salle

Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

New conducts American dreams and sonic fireworks

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

New conducts American dreams and sonic fireworks: The Chairman Dances Adams (+3 More)

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Private

The Chairman Dances

Piano Concerto in F

Umoja

Symphony No. 1, op. 9

Approved

About This Event
President Nixon goes to China – and diplomacy becomes a foxtrot. George Gershwin scales the pinnacles of jazz-age Manhattan, in the ultimate skyscraper concerto. Valerie Coleman finds that unity has African roots, and Samuel Barber grapples with European tradition, in a symphony written at storm force.

America has many musical voices, and in her debut concert with the BBC SO Gemma New has conceived a concert that’s as diverse and as generous as the American dream itself - ranging from the UK premiere of Valerie Coleman’s exuberant “Anthem of Unity” to 20th century classics by Adams and Barber. And to top it all, there’s another BBC SO debut, as the “stunning” (Washington Classical Review) Lise de la Salle plays Gershwin’s gloriously tuneful concerto: expect fireworks worthy of the Fourth of July.

English

New conducts American dreams and sonic fireworks by Adams, Gershwin, Coleman, V., Barber, Fri 24 Feb 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Gemma New, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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