Yes, we’re here again! Lev Parikian conducts the London Phoenix Orchestra in a scintillating programme of American and Russian light music, with overtures to two great shows – Gershwin’s Girl Crazy and Bernstein’s Candide – and Gershwin’s brilliant tone picture, An American in Paris. And there are three nice little pieces by Leroy Anderson (whose centenary was last year), and the so-called ‘Jazz Suite No. 2’ by Shostakovich, which isn’t jazz at all but is, er, a lot of fun (especially for the saxophonists). Oh, and Shostakovich’s ‘Tahiti Trot’, better know to you and me as ‘Tea for Two’.
(And I get to play the contra! That was a nice surprise.)
It’s on Tuesday 24 February (which happens to be my birthday) at Cadogan Hall.
BE THERE!!
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