It has become that time of evening...

Live from MediaCityUK, Salford. Presented by Tom McKinney

Korngold: Dance in old style
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Copland: Music for theater: suite

8.15
Music interval

Barber: Horizon
Kay: The Quiet One, suite

We open the programme with a miniature by a teenage Erich Korngold, written more than a decade before he moved to America in the 1930s and which includes a lyrical section which looks ahead to his time scoring movies for Hollywood. While Korngold was finding what we might now consider an "American sound" by accident, a young Aaron Copland was exploring jazz as a way of reflecting his native America, which informs his "Music for Theater" from 1925. The remaining works in this concert all date from the mid-1940s. Like Korngold, Ulysses Kay's catalogue contains much music for the silver screen, and we hear a suite which he drew from "The Quiet One", a documentary in which a deprived and excluded child in Harlem is celebrated and championed; now over seventy years old, it's a movie with a theme that's bang up to date. Francesca Chiejina joins the orchestra for Barber's haunting "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" and a rarely heard Barber miniature commissioned for radio broadcast completes the programme.

Francesca Chiejina (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Heron (conductor)