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St George's Bristol
Great George Street
Bristol
BS1 5RR
England
Programme
Leonard Bernstein – Overture Candide
Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings, Op.11
Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
George Gershwin – An American in Paris
John Williams – Star Wars Suite
Performers
Stefan Hofkes – Conductor
April Fredrick – soprano
Bristol Concert Orchestra
Programme Note
Like an extra strong Americano, this concert is overflowing with some of the best music from across the pond:
Two offerings from Samuel Barber with his famous and poignant Adagio for Strings, and the lesser-known, but gloriously lush, rhapsody for voice and orchestra Knoxville: Summer of 1915 set to words of James Agee mix with the sparkling vitality of Bernstein's Overture to Candide in the first half.
To follow, Gershwin's irrepressibly jazzy An American in Paris and - for an out of this world finish - the epic music from Star Wars penned by John Williams (far from the only music in tonight's to have found fame on the silver screen!).
