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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 04

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John Adams conducts his own Los Angeles portrait, City Noir.

John Adams conducts the combined Juilliard and Royal Academy Orchestras in his work City Noir.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham

Leading West Coast composer-conductor, John Adams launches this year's celebration of young orchestras and choirs as two major music colleges from either side of the Atlantic share the Royal Albert Hall stage. In a suitably continent-crossing programme Adams conducts them in Respighi's exuberantly cinematic survey of the festivals of Rome, the eternal city, and ends with his own symphonic triptych evoking the mood of 1950s Los Angeles. Ravel's vivacious, blues-tinged concerto elegantly bridges the two worlds.

John Adams: City Noir

Imogen Cooper (piano)
Juilliard Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music 
John Adams (conductor) 

This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 18th July at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 04

Prom 04

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

John Adams conducts the combined Juilliard and Royal Academy Orchestras.

John Adams conducts the combined Juilliard and Royal Academy Orchestras in Respighi's Roman Festival and his own City Noir, and Imogen Cooper plays Ravel's Piano Concerto.

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