Made in America

Many composers have left Europe to find a new home in the USA, and both in Bartók’s wartime Concerto for Orchestra – composed for the virtuosi of the Boston Symphony Orchestra – and Dvořák’s most popular concerto, composed in New York, you can hear elements of each composer’s old world as well as the new. John Adams’ riotous orchestral showpiece seems more authentically American, though it was a by-product of his celebrated opera Nixon in China, and imagines Madam Mao reliving her music-hall past.

Please note the change to the previously advertised start time for this concert. The concert will now begin at 1pm, with the pre-concert talk at 12 noon. Ticket holders have been notified directly by post/email during the week beginning 12 January.