The Great American Songbook

NOTE: NEW DATE!

Is it possible to mix folk songs and art music with the music from Broadway in the same concert? Yes you can, at least if the common denominator is that the music is rooted in the American soil. A fertile, musical soil with influences from all corners of the world and which therefore knows few borders. Still, new seeds are sown that are reborn over and over again into something uniquely American both in sound and expression. The music is often straightforward, sometimes on the verge of being too much, but always ready to charm you. The Great American Songbook, as a term, usually refers to the music from Broadway's golden age in the 1920s and 30s, from giants such as Jerome Kern and Richard Rogers; considered by many to be the North Americans' take on classical music. But why limit yourself to this era in the making of a songbook, when there is so much good choral music from the USA to choose from? UAK therefore invites you to a cross-border concert that is just to the point, too much, and yet very charming!

Music by Samuel Barber, Jerome Kern, Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein and Philip Glass, among others, is on the program.

Cast

Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala

Anders Göransson, piano

Lone Larsen, conductor