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Alison Balsom performs with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

26 March 2015, 13:51 | Updated: 15 December 2016, 11:50

Star trumpeter Alison Balsom continues the LPO's Live and Local tour this spring with performances of Songs of the Paradise Saloon

Classic Brit Award Winner Alison Balsom will join the London Philharmonic Orchestra for an evening of American-influenced music.

Balsom will perform British composer Bramwell Tovey’s evocative Songs of the Paradise Saloon for trumpet and orchestra. Adapted from Tovey’s opera The Inventor about a real-life 19th-century con-artist, this unusual piece evokes the atmosphere and characters found in a turn-of-the-century American dive bar with its languid, jazz-infused music.

Closing the evening is Dvořák’s much-loved Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), which includes the famous Largo melody. Composer of West Side Story Leonard Bernstein's Overture to his operetta Candide opens the concert in suitably exhilarating fashion.

This is the third year of the LPO's Live and Local tour which is supported by JTI.

TOUR DETAILS

Monday 20 April - The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Tuesday 21 April - Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent

Wednesday 22 April - Town Hall, Leeds

Saturday 2 May - De Montfort Hall, Leicester.

Programme:

Bernstein Overture, Candide

Bramwell Tovey Songs of the Paradise Saloon

Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

Conductor: Marios Papadopoulos

Soloist: Alison Balsom trumpet