Proms 2017 Prom 58: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langrée - BBC Proms

27 Aug 2017, Royal Albert Hall

19:45 Sun 27 Aug 2017 Next Event

Prom 58: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langrée

19:45 Sun 27 Aug 2017 Royal Albert Hall

This Proms debut performance by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra opens with Bernstein’s On The Waterfront. Copland’s Lincoln Portrait pays homage to one of the nation’s heroes, while Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 offers a statement of nationalism.

Programme

- - Leonard Bernstein
  - On the Waterfront – symphonic suite(22 mins)
- - Aaron Copland
  - Lincoln Portrait(15 mins)
- - interval
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Symphony No. 5 in E minor(45 mins)

Performers

Charles Dance
narrator
narrator
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langrée, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein’s symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man’s heroicfight against corruption and intimidation.

In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln’s greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music.

The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.