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Frank Dupree’s debut with the RLPO celebrates the 250th anniversary of the USA, with Liverpool audiences treated to sumptuous Copland and barn-storming performances of Gershwin and Duke Ellington.

To launch his second season with the LSO, Sir Antonio Pappano parades his American inheritance with a blazing evocation of faith, hope and resilience. 

Musical Americana as RLPO Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BBC Symphony Orchestra debut. 

The Lyon orchestra show their rapport with their former Music Director with an exuberant Copland symphony and an introspective Shostakovich concerto

Star pianist Lang Lang delivers a drama-packed Beethoven concerto; Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Phil impress in Copland's fanfare-filled Third Symphony.

This programme offered the chance to delve into some of the top composers from the US: Barber, Gershwin and Copland. Wayne Marshall proved a solid presence in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F. 

The Elements brings together five composers writing for the celebrated violinist: Kevin Puts, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon and Jessie Montgomery. 

Prieto conducted the young musicians in three compositions from the 1940s which showed the budding talent to which we have to look forward.

Gil Shaham is the outstanding soloist in Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto as a new season gets under way. 

Aaron Copland was friend and mentor to the young Tilson Thomas and his Third Symphony receives an affectionate performance as the conductor returns to his roots. 

Laura van der Heijden offered a deeply felt account of Walton's Cello Concerto, followed by a rare UK performance of Copland's Symphony no. 3.

After a humdrum reimagining of Paganini's 24th Caprice and an underwhelming Rachmaninov piano concerto, Slatkin triumphs with an august Copland 3.

Lisa Batiashvili and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons offer an adventurous program of works leaving a lasting impression.

Eiji Oue doesn't quite convince in Bernstein and Copland, but Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto proves a winner. 

Fanfares and percussion: the NYOS play an all American programme of Gershwin, Copland and welcome back NYOS alumnus Colin Currie to play Andrew Norman’s Switch.

Under Cristian Măcelaru's baton, Al-Zand, Barber, and Copland paint a memorable American scene.

Marin Alsop leads the Cleveland Orchestra in Schumann's Piano Concerto with soloist David Fray, as well as Samuel Barber's Second Essay and a dramatic reading of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony.

Upon entering the concert hall of Sydney Opera House, I was greeted by a plethora of percussion instruments positioned in all corners of the stage, along with multi-coloured ribbons, which were hanging down from the ceiling. They were in place for a performance of Toru Takemitsu’s From me flows what you call Time, for five percussionists and orchestra.

Adjectives that come to mind for your typical summer concert: fun, friendly, safe. Would any of those have fit last night’s Hollywood Bowl program? “Fun” absolutely works; maybe “friendly”. But “safe”? The centerpiece of the program – Alberto Ginastera’s wild Piano Concerto no. 1 – was anything but that. Try “daring”. Or even “dangerous”.

Michael Tilson Thomas steht seit Jahrzehnten wieder am Pult des BRSO, mit dem „Monument der amerikanischen Symphonik”, Coplands Dritter Symphonie.