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Things to doManchester Classical – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Gershwin, Bernstein and Strauss

Manchester Classical – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Gershwin, Bernstein and Strauss

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a programme of music inspired by beginnings and endings.
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester M2 3WS
From £9
8:00 pm
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- 9:00 pm
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The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester M2 3WS
From £9
8:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Save for later

Overview

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform a programme of music inspired by beginnings and endings.

  • Strauss – Death and Transfiguration
  • Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
  • Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • Anja Bihlmaier – conductor
  • Hayato Sumino – piano

Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. ‘Metropolitan madness’ and a ‘musical kaleidoscope of America’ is how Gershwin described this musical montage of the jazz age.

From the Roaring Twenties to the streets of 1950s New York, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story launches headlong into the high drama and searing rhythmic energy of one of the greatest musicals of all time. To open, Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration captures the final moments of a life – the ticking clock in a dark room, existential struggle, a flood of memories before finally, transcendence.

Directions

The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St, Manchester M2 3WS

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