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Live stream: Santtu-Matias Rouvali – American Dreams | Philharmonia Orchestra

When
Monday October 26, 2020 at 19:30
Available online until
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Where
Online: Royal Festival Hall, London
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  1. Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland
  2. Music for Pieces of Wood - Steve Reich
  3. Dances in the Canebrakes, for piano - Florence Beatrice Smith Price, orchestrated by William Grant Still
  4. Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks' - Igor Stravinsky

75 years ago, almost to the day, the Philharmonia Orchestra gave its first concert. Our Principal Conductor Designate Santtu-Matias Rouvali opens a season like no other in the Orchestra’s three-quarters of a century.

A trio of American composers, and one who became an American citizen, rub shoulders in Santtu’s appealing programme. Aaron Copland’s much-loved Appalachian Spring tells the tender, hopeful story of a young couple preparing for their wedding.

Santtu joins the Philharmonia’s percussion section on claves (tuned woodblocks) for Steve Reich’s mesmerizing Music for Pieces of Wood. Florence Price conjures up the Deep South of her childhood in three characterful dances, a Rag, a Slow Drag and a Cakewalk.

Igor Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks is named after the grand Washington home of the couple who commissioned it. But with its lively counterpoint and contrast of timbres between strings, woodwind and horns, it is an homage not to American music but to JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.


Venue
Online: Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road
London
London
SE1 8XX
England


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