Programme
- Jazz Suite(11 mins)
- Chamber Symphony(22 mins)
- Rough Voices(8 mins)麻豆官网首页入口 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 麻豆官网首页入口 National Orchestra of Wales. Bancroft grew up in a household where jazz and prog-rock was heard more often than Bach, so it鈥檚 no surprise that jazz plays a role in this mostly American programme.
Martin暖鈥檚 quirky Jazz Suite complements John Adams鈥檚 Chamber Symphony, whose sound-world only became clear to the composer when, as he was studying Schoenberg鈥檚 Chamber Symphony one day, he became aware that his young son was watching cartoons in a neighbouring room. According to Adams, 鈥楾he 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.鈥�
After a new commission by British composer Gavin Higgins comes two American classics: Barber鈥檚 nostalgic evocation of a balmy summer Tennessee night and Copland鈥檚 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 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3 & live-streamed to 麻豆官网首页入口 iPlayer from Cardiff
Image: Ryan Bancroft 漏 Benjamin Ealovega