Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 7: Bernstein on Broadway and Beyond

27 Aug 2018, Cadogan Hall

13:00 Mon 27 Aug 2018 Next Event

13:00 Mon 27 Aug 2018 Cadogan Hall

The Bernstein centenary celebrations continue with the UK premiere of unfinished ballet Conch Town – source for West Side Story’s 'America'. Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta serves up plenty of musical wit in the composer’s quirky song-cycle La bonne cuisine.

Programme

- - Leonard Bernstein
  - La bonne cuisine(5 mins)
- - Bushra El-Turk
  - Crème Brûlée on a Tree(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Fancy Free – 'Big Stuff'(3 mins)
  - Conch Town(12 mins)(completed by Tom Owen and Nigel Simeone) UK premiere
- - Aaron Copland
  - Pastorale(3 mins)
- - Samuel Barber
  - Hermit Songs, Op. 29 – ‘Sea Snatch’; ‘The Monk and His Cat’(3 mins)
- - Marc Blitzstein
  - Modest Maid’; ‘Stay in My Arms’(4 mins)
- - Stephen Sondheim
  - A Little Night Music – 'The Miller's Son'(4 mins)
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Trouble in Tahiti – 'What a Movie!'(3 mins)

Performers

Wallis Giunta
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Michael Sikich
piano
piano
Iain Farrington
piano
piano
Toby Kearney
percussion
percussion
Owen Gunnell
percussion
percussion

Composers

About This Event

Our Bernstein series continues with a recital of gems by Bernstein and his associates.

The concert also features a new song by British-Lebanese composer Bushra El-Turk, written in response to Bernstein’s witty recipe settings, La bonne cuisine.

Scored for two pianos and percussion, the early, unfinished ballet Conch Town – containing the song now better known as ‘America’ in West Side Story – has now been completed using other material by Bernstein.