Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Barbican Centre
Sir Antonio Pappano conducts two dramatic, emotionally intense American symphonies, both born of 20th-century tumult.
Dedicated to the memory of JFK, the spectacular Kaddish Symphony explores Bernstein’s crisis of faith. Musical theatre, oratorio and choral symphony rolled into one, its libretto rails against and praises God, mirrored by music of rhythmic urgency, unbounded joy and profound beauty.
Copland’s own Third Symphony, completed in 1946, is a vast and beautiful work of sprawling landscapes, offering early audiences a glint of optimism as the war came to an end. The final movement features the composer’s inspirational Fanfare for the Common Man.
