Performances of Marcus Roberts Trio at BBC Proms

Mon 24 Aug 2026

• 19:00

  American Classics

  Royal Albert Hall

  Marin Alsop leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a barn-storming celebration of American music, with works including Bernstein’s West Side Story, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and Copland’s Appalachian Spring

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  Marin Alsop leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a barn-storming celebration of American music, with works including Bernstein’s West Side Story, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and Copland’s Appalachian Spring

  Programme

  • • • Joan Tower
      • Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman(3 mins)
    • • Leonard Bernstein
      • Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’(24 mins)
    • • George Gershwin
      • Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)(16 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Jerome Moross
      • The Big Country – prelude(3 mins)
    • • Aaron Copland
      • Appalachian Spring – suite(23 mins)
    • • William Grant Still
      • Three Visions – No. 2: Summerland(5 mins)
    • • Leonard Bernstein
      • On the Town – Three Dance Episodes(11 mins)

  Performers

  • Marcus Roberts Trio
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Marin Alsop

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Joan Tower
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • George Gershwin
  • Jerome Moross
  • Aaron Copland
  • William Grant Still

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