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Afternoon on 3 with Georgia Mann

Another chance to hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with conductor Louis Langrée perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley

2pm
Bernstein: On the Waterfront - symphonic suite
Copland: Lincoln Portrait

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée, conductor

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langrée, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein's symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man's heroic fight against corruption and intimidation. In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland's Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln's greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music. The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

[First broadcast on Sunday 27th August]

Followed by a selection of music by this week's Proms artists.