Summer-Festival: Ouverture

A first for the Festival: our new Executive and Artistic Director, Sebastian Nordmann, kicks off the Summer Festival by inviting everyone to a big party – free of charge. In the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern, Riccardo Chailly and the fabulous Lucerne Festival Orchestra will set the mood with Gershwin and Bernstein, rumba and mambo – the perfect prelude to an unforgettable Cuban Night. Afterward, you can head over directly to the open-air “Classical Music for All” concert on the Europaplatz.

Performers:
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Solists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)

Program:
George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Cuban Overture

Riccardo Chailly in conversation with Sebastian Nordmann (in English)

Steve Reich (*1936)
New York Counterpoint. Version for 11 clarinets

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Mambo from West Side Story

The concert ends around 20.00 and has no intermission.