BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 21: Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson, including Billy the Kid, The Unanswered Question, and Harmonielehre, with Steven Osborne playing Rhapsody in Blue. Sunday, August 4 at 7 p.m., Royal Albert Hall. Live on BBC Radio 3. For the record.

Aug 4, 2024 | BBC Proms 2024 | 0 comments

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Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! (UK premiere)
Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid – suite
Samuel Barber: Adagio for strings
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
John Adams: Harmonielehre

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021jv1

Column Post 7,300. One-hundred years ago on this date, the premiere of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, played by the composer with the work’s commissioner Paul Whiteman conducting Ferde Grofé’s scoring (he would make further Blue arrangements) at Aeolian Hall, New York City. | The first recording. Jorge Bolet. Siegel & Slatkin. Leonard Bernstein & NY Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall.