Music for beginnings and endings. It鈥檚 hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin鈥檚 Rhapsody in Blue.

Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and 成人快手 SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubli茅es, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.

Rachmaninov, Bernstein and Dav贸ne Tines 鈥� a fresh perspective on America鈥檚 past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra.

We mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the document of independence with an all American programme featuring some of the most famous American composers in history, from Copland, Barber and Bernstein to William Grant Still and Christopher Tin.