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30 November 2024 Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Symphony Concert
City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Hodge - West Road Concert Hall
Program Info: City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Conductor, Robert Hodge Violin, Jordan Brooks
George Gershwin’s ‘An American in Paris’ is a cheerful and humorous overture portraying the impressions of an American visitor strolling about the city. The hustle and bustle of continental street life (complete with real taxi horns!) blends with nostalgic elements of jazz and blues in this entertaining cameo.
Erich Korngold emigrated from Austria to the USA during the 1930s, establishing himself as a film composer who brought symphonic techniques to the studio. By 1947, the year of his violin concerto, he was doing the reverse: the concerto is built on themes from his film music. Full of soaring melodies and rich harmony, it was sometimes seen as rather sentimental and old fashioned compared with the music of Stravinsky and Bartok, but today we can appreciate its beauty and romanticism without apology.
Prokofiev who, like Korngold, was also an accomplished composer for stage and film, composed seven symphonies over the course of his far from easy career. The seventh symphony was completed in 1952, the year before he died, in an attempt to improve his finances by winning the Stalin prize. Written in a more ‘simplistic’ musical style, the work combines a nostalgic, slightly melancholy tone with elements of his successful ballet writing and a cheerful, energetic finale designed to impress the judges.
George Gershwin - An American in Paris Erich Korngold - Violin Concerto, the concerto has themes from the scores for the movies ANOTHER DAWN (1937), ANTHONY ADVERSE (1936) & THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (1937) Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 7
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