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America

Name: America
Start: 2025-06-29T11:00:00
Location: Gewandhaus

MDR-Sinfonieorchester

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We conclude the concert season with Bernstein, Gershwin, and Glass, three icons of American music. Bernstein's first musical from 1944 is brimming with edgy rhythms, jazzy harmonies, and blues-tinged melancholy—the dances are the musical essence. Before Bernstein, Gershwin had not only chosen a revolutionary theme in his opera "Porgy and Bess"—it's about love and survival in a Black neighborhood—but also incorporated the music of his protagonists...

Program

Philip Glass - "M" - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess Suite

Leonard Bernstein - Three Dance Episodes (From "On the Town")

Composer

Participants

Maki Namekawa

Piano

Dennis Russell Davies

Conductor

MDR-Sinfonieorchester

Producer