Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.
Elena Schwarz, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Du Yun Hundred Heads (European Premiere)
Billy Childs Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (UK Premiere)
John Adams Harmonielehre
Billy Childs’s yearning sax sings of oppression and freedom. And a mythical Chinese monster somehow contains the spirit of jazz legend Ray Charles, in Du Yun’s Hundred Heads.
John Adams’s Harmonielehre is both a tribute to Schoenberg and a glittering celebration of West Coast counterculture. For Du Yun and Billy Childs, meanwhile, tales of Africa and China, the poetry of Maya Angelou and the deathless sound of Soul come together to create something powerful, personal and utterly new.
Every nation has a million stories: in America’s 250th year, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Elena Schwarz and saxophonist Steven Banks share some of the boldest.
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, City of London, EC2Y 8DS England, United Kingdom
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