Prom 50: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Time: 7.30pm - c9.35pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £6-£27.50 price code A or Prom for £5

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John Adams, the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist-in-Association, conducts an all-American Prom. Copland's Billy the Kid brought the Wild West to the ballet stage for the first time. Adams’ concerto, originally written for pianist Emanuel Ax, was inspired by the piano rolls of pianists down the years. Its gentle slow movement, 'Manny’s Gym', refers not to the pianist's favourite exercise venue, but to an interlude for him in the manner of a Satie Gymnopédie. The first performance of the symphony drawn from Adams's opera based on the life of atomic-bomb inventor J. Robert Oppenheimer completes the bill.

Copland

Billy the Kid – Suite (21 mins)

John Adams

Century Rolls (31 mins)

Interval

John Adams

Doctor Atomic Symphony (BBC co-commission: world premiere) (35 mins)

Olli Mustonen piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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