Programme for Rhythm & Dance:
John Adams - The Chairman Dances Copland - Clarinet Concerto Gabriela Ortiz - Antrópolis (NZ Premiere) Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, is an outtake of Adams’ opera Nixon in China, which imagines the young Chairman Mao dancing the foxtrot with his mistress.
Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto melds Latin American popular music with jazz in this work commissioned by “The King of Swing” Benny Goodman.
The New Zealand premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis. Grammy Award-winning Ortiz is one of Mexico’s hottest contemporary composers, and this work refers to el antro, Mexican slang for a nightclub.
Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances fromWest Side Story depictsa New York ganglandRomeo and Juliet. Bernstein’s score captures an irrepressible American swagger.
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