Taibhithe de Du Yun ag BBC Symphony Orchestra

Aoine 8 Beal 2026

• 19:30

  Making America: Billy Childs’s Saxophone Concerto

  Barbican, London

  Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

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  Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

  Programme

  • • • Du Yun
      • Hundred Heads
    • • Billy Childs
      • Diaspora: Concerto for Saxophone and OrchestraUK Premiere
    • • interval
    • • John Adams
      • Harmonielehre

  Ceoltóirí

  • Elena Schwarz

    conductor
    conductor
  • Steven Banks

    saxophone
    saxophone
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra

  Cumadóirí

  • Du Yun
  • Billy Childs
  • John Adams

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  Part of

  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2025-26 Barbican Season BBC Symphony Orchestra: Making America