Today the London Symphony Orchestra announced the details of BMW CLASSICS – the London Symphony Orchestra’s free outdoor concert in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 13 July 2024 at 5.00pm.
This free summer concert highlights the continued partnership between BMW Group and the London Symphony Orchestra, which for over a decade has brought superlative live orchestral music to audiences in one of the world’s most iconic public spaces, Trafalgar Square, and to tens of thousands more around the globe watching on YouTube.
The 2024 BMW Classics concert conducted by Duncan Ward opens with Emmanuelle Chabrier’s exuberant crowd-pleasing Joyeuse Marche with Brahms’ similarly frenzied and rhythmic dance piece Rondo alla Zingarese to follow. For the central section of the concert, the LSO play the world premiere of Joanna Lee’s new work, beams.bellows.bounds, specially commissioned for this occasion. This piece, written for a mixed-ability orchestra, brings together LSO musicians with 50 young musicians from east London as part of the LSO Discovery programmes. For the final half of the concert the Orchestra will perform Stravinsky’s magical score for the ballet Petrushka.
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