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15 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams

Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
19:30 Thu 15 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Starting with a sequence honouring Duke Ellington, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz. They are joined on stage by the Aaron Diehl Trio and soloists.
Starting with a sequence honouring Duke Ellington, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz. They are joined on stage by the Aaron Diehl Trio and soloists.

Programme

      • Solitudearr. M. Gould
      • Mood Indigoarr. M. Gould
      • Sophisticated Ladyarr. M. Gould
      • Caravanarr. M. Gould
      • Zodiac Suite(40 mins)UK premiere
        • interval
        • Composition No. 27 (+46, 59, 63, 147, 151, LM)(30 mins)

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    About This Event

    Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke’. Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs. The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary very much still with us. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘trans-idiomatic composer’ Anthony Braxton has established himself as a musician whose imagination recognises no bounds.

    Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

    Image: Aaron Diehl © Evelyn Freja

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    Proms 2024BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Proms 2024