The National Orchestra Of Cannes And Its Academy by Various, Du (2024/2024), Anthéa, Antibes, France

the story An Argentinian, two Americans and a Czech are featured in this concert by the Orchester National de Cannes, which opens with a work by American composer Charles Griffes. Died in 1920, at the age of 35, this former pupil of Scriabin is an impressionist musician whose Poem for flute and orchestra , of rhapsodic inspiration, is one of the most famous pieces. Originally written for the French flautist Georges Barrère in 1918, it will be performed here by Victoria Bianchini, a former student of the Antibes Conservatory. Accordion teacher at the Antibes Conservatory, accordionist Franka Herwig will be accompanied by the Orchester de Cannes in Aconcaguanamed after the highest peak in South America and peak of music by Astor Piazzolla. Composed in 1979, this concerto by the Argentinian master revisits in a scholarly if not classic way the milonga, the traditional tango of Buenos Aires. After the intermission, it will be the turn of the students of the Academy of the National Orchestra of Cannes to come into play in a program with the taste of America. First with excerpts from Symphonic Dances<.i> from West Side Story , the mythical musical comedy by American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, before tackling Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "from the New World” , Antonin Dvorák's masterpiece.