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It's an all-American week on Afternoon on 3, featuring the 大象传媒 performing groups in live concerts and specially made recordings of music by American composers. Today begins with one of the most American of works - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, before Charles Ives celebrates his native New England and the 大象传媒 Singers perform music by Elliott Carter and Samuel Barber. Tenor Samuel Boden joins the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra for the suite from Dominick Argento's opera based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe, before one of the most thrilling of all American minimalist pieces, Shaker Loops by John Adams. And the afternoon ends with a Symphony by the most famous of the early American female composers, Amy Beach.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Wayne Marshall (piano),
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Arvo Volmer (conductor).

Ives: Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No 1)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Nicholas Collon (conductor).

2.35pm
Elliott Carter: To Music
大象传媒 Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

Argento: Le Tombeau d' Edgar Poe
Samuel Boden (tenor),
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra,
Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor).

3pm
Barber: God's Grandeur; To be sung on the water
大象传媒 Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

John Adams: Shaker Loops
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Clark Rundell (conductor).

3.40pm
Beach: Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Gaelic)
Ulster Orchestra,
JoAnn Falletta (conductor).

This week's Thursday Opera Matinee is a Lyon Opera production of Der Kaiser von Atlantis - The Emperor of Atlantis, written in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt (Terez铆n) during World War Two by the Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien - who both died in Auschwitz in 1944.