© Marco Borggreve
New Year’s Eve
Program
Thomas Adès
Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face 2018
Samuel Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 op. 24 1947
William Walton
Suite aus Façade 1921–42
Leonard Bernstein
»I Feel Pretty« aus West Side Story 1957
George Gershwin
»Summertime« aus Porgy and Bess 1935
Jerome Kern
»Can’t help loving that man of mine«
aus Show Boat 1927
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances aus West Side Story
1957
Cast
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
soprano
Elim Chan
conductor
Kooperation von Gürzenich-Orchester und KölnMusik
Dates
How do you celebrate New Year’s Eve? Raclette, champagne and fireworks? Reflection and anticipation? Perhaps good conversations, with or without a party? To us, New Year’s Eve means music first and foremost, and bidding farewell to the old year and raising a glass with you to the new. We look forward to welcoming you on New Year’s Eve: the wonderful conductor Elim Chan has fascinated and enchanted us in four previous programmes. Now we have invited her again to join you and us as we see out the year 2025. With familiar »classics«, but also with rarely-heard (why is that?) gems: our New Year’s gifts to you. The glorious South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha shines in highlights by Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin and will delve into Samuel Barber’s dream worlds. His piece Knoxville: Summer of 1915 also describes a transition into a new phase of life. Which makes it a perfect fit for the last evening of a year…