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Making America: Blanchard, Herrmann & Latimer

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Fabien Gabel

,Barbican Hall
Selina Ott

Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.

In Hollywood, exiles and outsiders weaved American dreams, writing music that made the silver screen shine. Music from the golden age of the movies frames tonight’s concert, and from the haunted obsession of Bernard Herrmann’s classic Hitchcock score to Korngold’s The Sea Hawk, an all-action swashbuckler from Vienna’s brightest star – no emotion is off limits. It sounds glorious too – even without the pictures.

This is the first chance to hear music from Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, whose barnstorming run at the Metropolitan Opera in 2021 proved a major landmark in American music. Blanchard’s Grammy-winning 'opera in jazz' explores a troubled childhood in 1980s Louisiana, while Ryan Latimer’s brand new trumpet concerto with the young German trumpeter Selina Ott takes its inspiration from the wildlife of Florida.

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Programme

  • Bernard Hermann   Suite from ‘Vertigo’
  • Ryan Latimer   Bestia: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
  • Terence Blanchard   Suite from ‘Fire Shut Up in my Bones’ (UK Premiere)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold   Sea Hawk

Performers

  • Fabien Gabel   conductor
  • Selina Ott   trumpet

Ticket prices

Standard
From £15 *
* Excludes £4 booking fee

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