Berlin Academy of American Music / Charlotte Thiele / Garrett Keast

• Classical Music

The Berlin Academy of American Music cultivates the great heritage of American musical culture, but does not hide its passion for new discoveries. At the invitation of the TheaterGemeinde Hamburg, the chamber orchestra not only dances on the borderline between symphonic music and jazz with Gershwin’s snappy tone poem »An American in Paris« and three pieces by Bernstein and Copland, but also enters a world of light and shadow together with the young Dresden violinist Charlotte Thiele and a work by the American Missy Mazzoli. The world premiere of »A Mass of Stars Block the View« also awaits. Danish cellist and composer Josefine Opsahl describes her piece as »a great, cosmic and adventurous journey into the infinite universe«.

PERFORMERS

Berlin Academy of American Music chamber orchestra

Charlotte Thiele violin

Garrett Keast conductor

PROGRAM

Aaron Copland
An Outdoor Overture

Josefine Opsahl
A Mass of Stars Block the View

Missy Mazzoli
Dark with Excessive Bright

- Interval -

Leonard Bernstein
Ouvertüre zu »Wonderful Town«

Leonard Bernstein
Three Dance Episodes

George Gershwin
An American in Paris