91Èȱ¬

Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Bernstein on Broadway and Beyond - Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano), Michael Sikich & Iain Farrington (pianos), Toby Kearney & Owen Gunnell (percussion)

Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Leonard Bernstein
La bonne cuisine

Bushra El-Turk
Crème Brûlée on a Tree
91Èȱ¬ commission: world premiere

Leonard Bernstein
Fancy Free – 'Big Stuff'
Conch Town
UK premiere

Aaron Copland
Pastorale

Samuel Barber
Hermit Songs, Op. 29 – ‘Sea Snatch’; ‘The Monk and His Cat’

Marc Blitzstein
Modest Maid’; ‘Stay in My Arms'

Stephen Sondheim
A Little Night Music – 'The Miller's Son'

Leonard Bernstein
Trouble in Tahiti – 'What a Movie!'

Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano)
Michael Sikich & Iain Farrington (pianos)
Toby Kearney & Owen Gunnell (percussion)

Our Bernstein series continues with a recital of gems by Bernstein and his associates. The concert also features a new song by British-Lebanese composer Bushra El-Turk, written in response to Bernstein’s witty recipe settings, La bonne cuisine. Scored for two pianos and percussion, the early, unfinished ballet Conch Town – containing the song now better known as ‘America’ in West Side Story – has now been completed using other material by Bernstein.