Name: Summer Lunchtime Concert
Start: 2023-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Concert Hall (NCH)

Organization

Conductor

Alice Farnham

Instrumentalist

Gary Beecher

Piano

National Concert Hall

Orchestra

National Symphony Orchestra

Summer Lunchtime Concert

Dublin

Ireland

National Concert Hall (NCH)

Public

On the Town

Rhapsody in Blue

Four Dances from Rodeo

Approved

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Singer

Soprano

Contralto

Bass

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

A flying lunchtime visit to America takes in New York and the Wild West in three blazing, dance-led pieces by composers who gave the New World its own distinctive, melody-laced voice.

The thrill of the city that never sleeps is given an adrenalin, jazz-accented boost in Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town, a vivacious portrait in miniature of 24 exhausting hours in the Big Apple.

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is a euphoric hymn to one of the world’s most exhilarating cities, and to America the bold, in effervescent music whose piano line channels Liszt at his most pneumatic and Tchaikovsky with his heart most squarely on sleeve.  

Borrowing from American folk tunes, the Four Dance Episodes from Copland’s colourful and witty ballet Rodeo deliver a virtuoso display of orchestral colour and exuberance. A vivid portrait of frontier life in 19th-century America, its ‘Hoe-Down’ finale is an energetic rustic dance with a traditional Irish reel at its heart.

Leading the National Symphony Orchestra, Alice Farnham – who is ‘doing more than anyone to change the face of conducting in the UK’ (Daily Telegraph) – makes a welcome return to the National Concert Hall, where she was Artistic Director of the Female Conductor Programme from 2017-22.

Joining them for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is the ‘subtle, sophisticated… with a maturity of both technique and interpretative outlook’ (Belfast Telegraph) Irish pianist Gary Beecher.

English

Summer Lunchtime Concert by Bernstein, Gershwin, Copland, From (2023/2023), Conductor Alice Farnham, National Concert Hall (NCH), Dublin, Ireland

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues