Name: Southbank Centre: Watts, Saint-Saëns, Coleridge-Taylor
Start: 2024-02-02T19:30:00
Location: Southbank Centre

Leslie Suganandarajah

Chineke! Orchestra

In the centenary year of his death, the orchestra begins with Charlestonian Rhapsody by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, an American composer who emigrated to London and found success as both a performer and composer.

An American in Paris

Southbank Centre

Watts’ piece, Majestique – a rhythmically driven symphonic work which blends mainstream classical influences, particularly Beethoven and Mendelssohn, with a unique personal voice – opens the concert. It also marks Watts’ first orchestral piece to implement full sonata form and it, as its name suggests, is truly majestic.