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St. David's Hall 7.30pm Friday 18th October 2019
AMERICAN NIGHT
Bernstein: Candide Overture Ives: Symphony No. 2 (Welsh Premiere) Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Barber: Adagio for Strings Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Symphonic Picture
Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra opens its new season with a concert of music from across the pond!
It’s a night of tune after tune after tune, that opens with Copland’s breath-taking Fanfare for
the Common Man and Bernstein’s popular Candide
Overture.
There’s also the sheer brilliance of music by George Gershwin in a suite from his opera Porgy and Bess….Summertime, Bess You is My Woman Now and It Ain’t Necessarily So, just some of the hit songs included. Jeff Howard, one of our favourite soloists features in Rhapsody in Blue, a work that epitomizes the energy and razzmatazz of 1920s New York.
Charles Ives completed his Symphony No. 2 in 1901, but it wasn’t performed for 50 years until a now legendary premiere conducted by Leonard Bernstein. CPO conductor Michael Bell was bowled over by this piece at the BBC Proms in 2018 and knew it was a work CPO had to perform. It begins lyrically, like Dvorak or Brahms, and closes in the most infectiously brilliant and joyous last movement with quotes of marches, hymns and American folk songs and an ending that will be as unexpected as it is stunning! A belated Welsh premiere!
Also featured is Barber’s deeply felt Adagio for Strings widely known for its use on the soundtrack of films The Elephant Man and Platoon.
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St.
David's Hall 7.30pm Friday 6th December 2019 |
CPO: 25 Years of...A Night at the Movies
A long time ago…in a concert hall far, far away (well, in 1994) Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra performed what was to be a one-off programme of film music. CPO’s conductor Michael Bell has always been a great enthusiast for film music and wanted CPO and audiences to share his passion for movie scores.
In December 2019, CPO celebrates 25 years of A Night at the Movies with some of the most popular and often requested from the many, many titles presented over the years. We hope some of your favourites are here, including:
Star Wars (A
New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Force
Awakens)
Harry
Potter
Pirates of
the Caribbean
The Jungle
Book
Ben-Hur
Casablanca
Star
Trek
633
Squadron
Miss
Marple
Chicago
Breakfast at
Tiffany’s
Plus Gershwin in Hollywood and Tribute to the Film Composer.
Countdown to Christmas with this great celebration of fantastic music.
