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8 Sep 2020, Hoddinott Hall
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Proms at ... Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
19:30 Tue 8 Sep 2020 Hoddinott Hall
A mostly American Prom taking in the influences of jazz and popular music alongside iconic classic works by Barber and Copland respectively evoking a balmy Tennessee night and Pennsylvanian pioneer settlers. Watch on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer at 7.30pm.
A mostly American Prom taking in the influences of jazz and popular music alongside iconic classic works by Barber and Copland respectively evoking a balmy Tennessee night and Pennsylvanian pioneer settlers. Watch on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer at 7.30pm.

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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