World To Come

24 Feb 2014, Southbank Centre, London

World To Come

World To Come

Mon 24 Feb 2014 Queen Elizabeth Hall

Looking towards a post-World War One future through the eyes of superpower America.

Programme

- - Aaron Copland
  - Music for the Theatre
- - David Lang
  - concerto (world to come)
- - John Alden Carpenter
  - Krazy kat - jazz pantomime
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Fancy Free

Performers

成人快手 Concert Orchestra
Maya Beiser
cello
cello
Keith Lockhart
conductor
conductor

Composers

Aaron Copland
David Lang
John Alden Carpenter
Leonard Bernstein

Concert Information

From Roaring Twenties jazz and Bernstein鈥檚 sassy ballet of 1944, to present day New York鈥檚 Bang on a Can star David Lang. This concert looks towards a post-World War One future through the eyes of superpower America. Maya Beiser meditates within a post-apocalyptic spiritual world in a shimmering cello concerto written specially for her.