Join the West London Sinfonia on 4th February 2017, 7:30pm at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park W4 1TT for a wonderful musical evening.
In this programme, the orchestra showcase works from four distinguished native-born Americans. Composers whose music most define the American idiom and who have been influential in shaping music of the twentieth century.
Barber’s dreamlike setting of a poem by James Agee will be sung by sensational soprano Nadine Benjamin; Copland and Gershwin paint other contrasting pictures of American life and times; and Glass has contributed to a new musical language in the twentieth century.
Nadine is warm, engaging, sings like a dream – West London Sinfonia has the very great good fortune to be performing again with Nadine Benjamin in Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”, that nostalgic and undeniably beautiful setting of a prose/poem by James Agee.
The world the child describes was about to be shattered by private family tragedy, and inexorably eroded for the communities of that time and place. It can’t fail to move you, and the music rocks (literally). West London Sinfonia also welcomes passionate musicians.
The regular rehearsal is on Tuesday evening. Too much pressure from work? Joining an orchestra maybe a good option for a moment of relief.
Based on information supplied by Gigi Lam.
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