Gershwin & The Great American Songbook

PIAZZOLLA Escualo (6’)
LAYTON (arr Andrew Cottee) After You've Gone (5’)
GERSHWIN (arr. Pearson) The Man I Love (5’)
KREISLER Praeludium and Allegro (6’)
GERSHWIN (arr. Heifetz) 'Bess, You is my Woman Now' from Porgy and Bess (10’)
GERSHWIN (arr. Pearson) Gershwin Finale Medley (6’)
COPLAND (arr. Pearson) El Salón México (10’)
PONCE (arr. Heifetz) Estrellita (5’)
KREISLER (arr. Rachmaninov) Liebesleid (4’)
Selections from the Great American Songbook (13’)
BERNSTEIN (arr. Pearson) West Side Story Suite (15’)

Programme subject to minor changes

Violinist Lizzie Ball has performed around the world with stars including Nigel Kennedy, Ariana Grande and Hugh Jackman. She returns to her native Sheffield with pianist James Pearson for an afternoon of timeless music for violin and piano. Join them for a journey through the musical and personal encounters of some of the finest composers of the Great American Songbook and beyond. This concert features Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein and more, with arrangements of some of the best known showtunes from musicals, including ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Porgy and Bess’, together with some of the most enduring songs of the early 20^th century. It promises to be an uplifting afternoon of memorable tunes interspersed with conversation.