Name: BBC Proms: American Dreams
Start: 2020-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wales Millennium Centre

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Conductor

Ryan Bancroft

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Singer

Soprano

Natalya Romaniw

BBC Proms: American Dreams

Cardiff

United Kingdom

Wales Millennium Centre

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Public

Concert

Jazz Suite

Chamber Symphony

Rough Voices

Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Appalachian Spring

Saurav Kumar

Approved

California-born Ryan Bancroft makes his Proms debut as Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Bancroft grew up in a household where jazz and prog-rock was heard more often than Bach, so it’s no surprise that jazz plays a role in this mostly American programme.

Martinů’s quirky Jazz Suite complements John Adams’s Chamber Symphony, whose sound-world only became clear to the composer when, as he was studying Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony one day, he became aware that his young son was watching cartoons in a neighbouring room. According to Adams, ‘The hyperactive, insistently aggressive and acrobatic scores for the cartoons mixed in my head with the Schoenberg music, itself hyperactive, acrobatic and not a little aggressive, and I realised suddenly how much these two traditions had in common.’

After a new commission by British composer Gavin Higgins comes two American classics: Barber’s nostalgic evocation of a balmy summer Tennessee night and Copland’s ballet inspired by early-19th-century pioneer settlers in Pennsylvania.

It will not be possible to have an audience at the Royal Albert Hall.

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BBC Proms: American Dreams by Martinů, Adams, Higgins, G., Barber, Copland, From (2020/2020), Conductor Ryan Bancroft, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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