Septura: An American in Paris

We welcome back to the Festival Septura, the internationally renowned brass septet after their triumph in Newbury last year. 

A celebration of the vibrant music that arises from the crossing of boundaries of genre and culture. Septura explore a great transatlantic relationship, charting a course from Debussy’s Préludes, through Ravel’s Mother Goose, to his friend Gershwin’s iconic An American in Paris, especially arranged for brass and solo car-horns. 

The blending of classical forms and jazz idioms is exemplified by Gershwin’s Three Piano Preludes, and in a suite from Treemonisha, the first African American opera, by Gershwin’s compatriot and contemporary, Scott Joplin.