Programme
- Jazz Suite(11 mins)
- Chamber Symphony(22 mins)
- Rough Voices(8 mins)³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ commission: world premiere
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915(16 mins)
- Appalachian Spring(23 mins)
Performers
- Natalya Romaniwsoprano
- Ryan Bancroftconductor
About This Event
California-born Ryan Bancroft makes his Proms debut as Principal Conductor of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff.
Live on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 & live-streamed to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer from Cardiff
Image: Ryan Bancroft © Benjamin Ealovega