Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform Bernstein

27 Jan 2018, Milton Court

13:00 Sat 27 Jan 2018 Next Event

成人快手 Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Guildhall School of Music & Drama perform Bernstein

13:00 Sat 27 Jan 2018 Milton Court

Bernstein on a small scale, revealing his prodigious ability to write music of charm, substance and a miraculous and genre-defying gift of melody.

Programme

- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Arias & Barcarolles
  - Clarinet Sonata
  - Touches: Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda
  - Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Performers

Musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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Composers

Leonard Bernstein

Concert Information

Two works for clarinet reveal Bernstein鈥檚 innate feeling for jazz; his Clarinet Sonata has echoes of Aaron Copland while the Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, written for Benny Goodman, has become a much loved concert-work for our time. Touches, written for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1980, tests the pianist 鈥� literally! - in many different techniques but always with charm and wit. And as song-writer, Bernstein鈥檚 love of and feeling for words and his gift for melody come together perfectly.