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Proms 2024
15 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams

Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
Prom 35: Ellington, Braxton and Mary Lou Williams
19:30 Thu 15 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Starting with a sequence honouring Duke Ellington, Ilan Volkov and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz. They are joined on stage by the Aaron Diehl Trio and soloists.
Starting with a sequence honouring Duke Ellington, Ilan Volkov and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz. They are joined on stage by the Aaron Diehl Trio and soloists.

Programme

      • Solitudearr. M. Gould
      • Mood Indigoarr. M. Gould
      • Sophisticated Ladyarr. M. Gould
      • Caravanarr. M. Gould
      • Zodiac Suite(40 mins)UK premiere
        • interval
        • Composition No. 27 (+46, 59, 63, 147, 151, LM)(30 mins)

    Performers

    About This Event

    Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke’. Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs. The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary very much still with us. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘trans-idiomatic composer’ Anthony Braxton has established himself as a musician whose imagination recognises no bounds.

    Broadcast live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

    Image: Aaron Diehl © Evelyn Freja