Gershwin, Adams & Connesson

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Saturday 01 May 2027

20:00

On demand from Saturday 01 May 2027 20:00
to Tuesday 01 June 2027 23:59

Programme

Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955)	Pacific 231
Adams, John (b. 1947)	Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Connesson, Guillaume (b. 1970)	Saxophone Concerto ‘A Kind of Trane’
Simon, Carlos (b. 1986)	Four Black American Dances
Gershwin, George (1898-1937)	Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess

Performers

Stéphane Denève	Conductor
Steven Banks	Saxophone
Ziwei Ma	NWS Conducting Fellow
New World Symphony

History comes full circle when Stéphane conducts the suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess just blocks from the opera’s rumored Miami Beach birthplace. Honegger’s Pacific 231 “picks up steam” when played alongside Jean Mitry’s Palme d’Or-winning short film of the same name.

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