Name: Marin Alsop conducts Rhapsody in Blue
Start: 2023-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Conductor

Marin Alsop

Instrumentalist

Marcus Roberts

Piano

Singer

Jason Marsalis

Drums

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Martin Jaffe

bass

Marin Alsop conducts Rhapsody in Blue

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Marin Alsop conducts Rhapsody in Blue: Poster

Public

Concert

Symphonic Poem

Symphony No. 1, op. 9

Fanfare for the Common Man

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

On the Town

Rhapsody in Blue

Approved

South Bank Centre

A high-octane all-American programme featuring the Marcus Roberts Trio opens our series Let Freedom Ring: Celebrating the Sounds of America.

This survey of a century of American music opens with a bang – the effervescent Drums, by James P. Johnson, a key figure in the early years of jazz. And there’s more time in the limelight for the Philharmonia’s percussion and brass sections in two fanfares – Joan Tower’s is dedicated to our Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop, the ‘Uncommon Woman’ conducting tonight’s concert.

On the Town is Leonard Bernstein’s love letter to his adopted city. It was his first Broadway musical, written in 1944 when he was in his mid-twenties. Tonight’s Three Dance Episodes include the catchy hit New York, New York.

Many of the pieces in this series don’t just blur the boundaries between ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ music, they tear them up completely. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with its unmistakeable sliding clarinet opening, is perhaps the most famous example.  The virtuosity and almost telepathic rapport of the Marcus Roberts Trio, who visit London specially for Let Freedom Ring, takes this masterpiece of the Jazz Age to a whole new level.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Instrumentation

Ensemble