BBC Proms Season 2026 Episode 23 - American Classics at the Proms

Airdate: 2026-Sep-06

Episode summary:

Katie Derham presents a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in which Marin Alsop conducts the Philharmonia and the Marcus Roberts Trio a celebration of music from her homeland. Featuring the urban rhythms of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and On the Town, George Gershwin's jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and the wide-open landscapes of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Jerome Moross's The Big Country.

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BBC Proms is the world's greatest classical music festival.