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Bang on a Can All-Stars join Bramwell Tovey and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra, live from QEH in London, in Julia Wolfe's Flower Power, a new work about changing society in the 1960s.

Live from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, presented by Martin Handley.

After an excerpt from John Adams' opera based on President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, Bang on a Can All-Stars join forces with conductor Bramwell Tovey and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra for the UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s new piece Flower Power, in which she addresses the radical upheaval of society in the 1960s. In the second half, after BOACAS play their own version of Steve Martland, the strings of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ CO take centre stage in Philip Glass's 1995 four movement Third Symphony.

John Adams: Chairman Dances 12’30
Julia Wolfe: Flower Power (UK premiere) 30’

INTERVAL

Steve Martland: Horses of Instruction 17’
Philip Glass: Symphony No 3 25’

Bang on a Can All-Stars
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra, conductor Bramwell Tovey

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 Feb 2020 19:30

Music Played

  • John Adams

    Chairman Dances (Nixon in China)

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
  • Julia Wolfe

    Flower Power

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars.
  • John Adams

    China Gates

    Performer: Gloria Cheng-Cochran.
  • Steve Reich

    Tehillim No 2

    Ensemble: Ossia Ensemble. Conductor: Alan Pierson.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude No 6

    Performer: Maki Namekawa.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude No 9

    Performer: Mika Hamekawa.
  • Steve Martland

    Horses of Instruction

    Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars.
  • Philip Glass

    Symphony No 3

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
  • George Frideric Handel

    O Lord, in thee I have trusted (Te Deum in D major 'Dettingen')

    Singer: Christopher Lowrey. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A major, Op 6 No 11

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • L'OISEAU LYRE.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 Feb 2020 19:30

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