Chineke! Orchestra with Angel Blue
19:30
Sat 22 Aug 2026
Royal Albert Hall
Programme
- Dance Suite(15 mins)reconstr. & arr. Tuffus Zimbabwe; world premiere
- Knoxville: Summer of 1915(15 mins)
- Puttin’ On the Ritz(3 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
- Four Songs – ‘Even in the Moment’(3 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
- That Old Black Magic(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
- My Funny Valentine(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
- Love Is Here to Stay(4 mins)arr. Anthony Parnther
- interval
- Symphony No. 8 in G major(34 mins)
Performers
- Angel Bluesoprano
- Jonathon Heywardconductor
About This Event
Europe’s first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra Chineke! is back. It opens with the premiere of a suite drawn from music for a ballet left incomplete by the South Carolina-born Edmund Thornton Jenkins, who died aged only 32. American soprano Angel Blue sings Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – a child’s all-encompassing vision of life in a teeming urban centre – as well as new arrangements of songs by some of 20th-century America’s greatest tunesmiths, including Richard Rodgers’s ‘My Funny Valentine’ and Irving Berlin’s ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz’. After the interval we swap cities for forests and fields in the ecstatic nature hymn that is Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
Angel Blue © Dario Acosta
