DANCING IN THE STREETS

Tuesday 1 March 2011 at 7.30pm

Symphony Hall, Birmingham +44 (0)121-780 3333

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Carlos Kalmar  conductor
Steven Osborne  piano

Adams: The Chairman Dances 12'
Bernstein: West Side Story - Symphonic Dances 23'
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain 23'
Gershwin: An American in Paris 17'

From Gershwin tapping through the streets of jazz-age Paris, to John
Adams imagining Mao Zedong and Madame Mao in a show-stopping
foxtrot - there's no denying that American composers have got rhythm!
South American-born conductor Carlos Kalmar knows all about that,
and tonight he leads the CBSO on a high-kicking celebration of the
American way of dance. Expect some serious Latin flair in Bernstein's
West Side Story dances, the smokiest of blues in An American in
Paris, and - at the heart of the programme - something completely
different. The superb British pianist Steven Osborne should bring just
the right mixture of poetry and panache to Falla's enchanted,
shimmering Nights in the Gardens of Spain begun in 1911.

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