Music Celebrations International
presents Americans in London: A Musical Extravaganza - a tribute to American, European and British music from classical to The Beatles
A free lunch-time concert featuring
St Joseph’s High School Symphony Orchestra and Band from Michigan, USA
with Burke Lokey and Aaron Engleman, Directors
Best of the Beatles – Lennon and McCartney
Selections from Peer Gynt Suite – Grieg
Serenade for Strings in C major (selection) - Tchaikovsky
Cole Porter classics
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) – Gershwin
A Salute to the Big Bands
And much more.......
'Tchaikovsky meets the Beatles' is the best introduction to this delightful concert by St Joseph’s High School Symphony Orchestra and Band. These 14 to 18-year-old students have won praise throughout the mid-western USA, and produce a sound that would credit many professional orchestras.
Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite and Gershwin’s Summertime are instantly recognisable, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings never fails to bring a tear to the eye.
Combine these with some jazz, some swing and some of the best-known tunes from The Beatles, and you have the recipe for a perfect lunch-time interlude, in which Britain and the New World come together in an atmosphere of relaxation and easy listening in the glorious surroundings of Southwark Cathedral.