The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: City Lights
Closes
Nov 28, 2024Posted on
Oct 8, 2024Event type:
Music ,Price:
Tickets from $25 to $121Venue:
Auckland Town HallAddress:
301-303 Queen St, Auckland CentralRegion:
Auckland ,
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Andrew Beer
Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Gershwin An American in Paris
Est. running time one hour and 45 minutes including a 20-minute interval
To call Wynton Marsalis a legendary trumpeter is merely to scratch the surface of one of the most multifaceted musicians around. His music is a glorious melting pot of jazz, Latin, Bartók, hoedown, Prokofiev, blues… and it’s absolutely thrilling. So, his Violin Concerto needs a soloist with immense musical flexibility (few concertos have a movement called ‘Hootenanny’) as well as high virtuosity, and of course the Auckland Philharmonia’s Andrew Beer is one of those rare musicians.
Bernstein and Gershwin were also both American genre-hopping composers, and their tributes to New York and Paris, respectively, round out an incredibly exciting programme.