Details
Online event
London
England
Programme
Aaron Copland – Piano Trio 'Vitebsk'
Aaron Copland – Variations on a Shaker Melody
Lou Harrison – Largo Ostinato
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
Performers
Nathan Williamson – piano
Programme Note
Renowned pianist, Nathan Williamson, presents a stunning concert of works for piano by American composers. The evening features Aaron Copland's monumental Sonata, composed in the early, dark days of the Second World War, as well as his earlier Variations, the work in which he felt he truly found his voice as a composer. Contrasting is one of the final works by his protege, Leonard Bernstein, ‘dedicated to my first love, the keyboard’, and Lou Harrison's luscious Largo Ostinato, an early work which he later reworked into a movement of his 3rd Symphony.