Nottingham – The Hallé Orchestra

Nottingham

Jess performs John Williams’s Escapades and John Harle’s Briggflatts with the Hallé and Stephen Bell.

Gig Details

Time
7:30 pm
Tickets
£11.50 - 37.50 –
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Venue Details

Address
Royal Concert Hall Theatre SquareNottingham, NG1 5ND
Phone
0115 989 5555

Stephen Bell conductor
Jess Gillam saxophone

Copland Billy the Kid
Harle Briggflatts
Williams Escapades
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Adams A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

The brilliant young British saxophonist Jess Gillam takes centre stage in our Anglo-American season finale, beginning with Aaron Copland’s suite from his 1938 ballet, Billy the Kid, while John Williams’ Escapades, evokes a progressive jazz ambience. Jess switches to soprano sax for John Harle’s colourful and sonorous Briggflatts, inspired by Basil Bunting’s epic poem of 1966. Crossing the pond for the finale, Bernstein’s irresistible dances from West Side Story has an equally spectacular encore in John Adams’ adrenalin-pumping A Short Ride in a Fast Machine.