BBC Proms 2020

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BBC Proms: Proms 2020: American Dreams

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Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC NOW in a Prom celebrating popular music from the USA.

A Prom with an American focus in which Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales feature influences of jazz alongside Barber, Copland and Gavin Higgins

California-born Ryan Bancroft makes his debut as principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and at the Proms, with this programme, which has a focus on America and its music.  Martinů’s Jazz Suite perfectly complements John Adams’s Chamber Symphony; the sound world of which arose for the composer when he viewed his study of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony through the lens of cartoon music coming from the next room. An exciting new commission by British composer Gavin Higgins entitled Rough Voices follows, before two American classics: Barber’s nostalgic evocation of a balmy Tennessee night and Copland’s exhilarating ballet suite inspired by early-19th-century pioneer settlers in Pennsylvania, in its less-heard original chamber version.

7.30pm Martinů: Jazz Suite
Adams: Chamber Symphony
Higgins: Rough Voices
Barber: Knoxville - Summer of 1915
Copland: Appalachian Spring

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Natalya Romaniw (soprano)

BBC Proms: Proms 2020

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.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2020 BBC Proms season.

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