Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Glass, Philip (b. 1937) | The Light | |
| Kernis, Aaron Jay (b. 1960) | Concerto for Flute and Orchestra (UK premiere) | |
| Ives, Charles (1874-1954) | The Unanswered Question | |
| Adams, John (b. 1947) | Doctor Atomic Symphony |
Performers
| Andrés Orozco-Estrada | Conductor |
| Marina Piccinini | Flute |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra |
A trumpet asks Charles Ives's Unanswered Question – and throughout a century of American music, composers have offered their answers. They've been as luminous and lush as Philip Glass's The Light, and simultaneously as dark and as dazzling as John Adams's Dr Atomic Symphony: an electrifying orchestral summary of his 2005 opera about the dawn of the nuclear age. Find your own 21st-century truth and be ready for a few surprises, as Marina Piccinini gives the UK premiere of a vibrant new flute concerto, written specially for her by the American maverick Aaron Jay Kernis.
