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Nocturne - American Night Music
Madeleine Mitchell, violin & Nathan Williamson, piano
Part of the Americana 2018 Season
Add to my Calendar 11-10-2018 22:00 12-10-2018 00:00 36 Nocturne - American Night Music Programme will finish by 11pm. An evocative programe devised by Madeleine Mitchell of night music by American composers, ranging from the beautiful bluesy Nocturne by Copland of 1928 (on Mitchell's album 'Violin Songs') to the delicate sonorities of Crumb and Cage and the lively rag by Bolcom, who is 80 this year. Madeleine was a Fulbright/ITT Fellow to New York and met Ned Rorem (b.1923) when she led the Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Festival. She plays 4 movements of his Night Music of 1976: 2 Moths; The Lighthouse; Gnats; and Saying Goodbye Driving Off, with Nathan Williamson who has received wide praise for his recordings of American Music. St John's Smith Square, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St John's Smith Square
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Aaron Copland – Two Pieces for Violin and Piano: Nocturne and Ukulele Serenade
Ned Rorem – Night Music
Ernest Bloch – Nuit Exotique, B.57
George Crumb – Four Nocturnes
John Cage – Nocturne
William Bolcom – Graceful Ghost Rag (arr. violin and piano)
Performers
Madeleine Mitchell – Violin
Nathan Williamson – piano
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Programme Note
Programme will finish by 11pm.
An evocative programe devised by Madeleine Mitchell of night music by American composers, ranging from the beautiful bluesy Nocturne by Copland of 1928 (on Mitchell's album 'Violin Songs') to the delicate sonorities of Crumb and Cage and the lively rag by Bolcom, who is 80 this year.
Madeleine was a Fulbright/ITT Fellow to New York and met Ned Rorem (b.1923) when she led the Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Festival. She plays 4 movements of his Night Music of 1976: 2 Moths; The Lighthouse; Gnats; and Saying Goodbye Driving Off, with Nathan Williamson who has received wide praise for his recordings of American Music.
