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New Year's Eve Concert - Bernstein & Gershwin

Name: New Year's Eve Concert - Bernstein & Gershwin
Start: 2024-12-31T18:00:00
Location: Cologne Philharmonie

WDR Sinfonieorchester

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A musical trip to America at the end of the year - with the composers Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, in whose works the new sounds of the West and jazz are mixed with the traditions of European classical music. Between Bernstein's festival music "Divertimento" and Gershwin's Southern opera "Porgy and Bess" one of the strongest female voices in America has her say: the composer Jessie Montgomery, born in New York in 1981. Her "Freedom Song...

Program

Jessie Montgomery - Five Freedom Songs

George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

Participants

Julia Bullock

Singer

Alfred Walker

Singer

Andris Poga

Conductor

WDR Radio Choir

Chorus