James Gaffigan & Janine Jansen

Date & Time

Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 20:00

Venue

The tone colors of the strings in William Grant Still’s Mother and Child evoke the lovely flower meadows and the cradling one associates with the tender bonds between mother and child. Dvořák’s American Suite: raw, promising, yearning, impetuous, exciting – a musical depiction of the New World. Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) begins with a sighing, exquisitely flowing solo violin line, and with the addition of strings, harp, and percussion, turns into an unconventional, raging mix of styles with a... Read full text

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Musicians

James Gaffigan	Conductor
Janine Jansen	Violin
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

“Mother and Child” for string orchestra	William Grant Still
“American Suite”, op. 98b	Antonín Dvořák
“Serenade after Plato’s Symposium” for violin, string orchestra and percussion	Leonard Bernstein
“An American in Paris”	George Gershwin

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