WEST SIDE STORY
Leonard Bernstein combined Europe’s symphonic tradition with idioms and styles from American jazz and Latin music in West Side Story, one of the 20th century’s most beloved musicals. More than 30 years earlier, five of Paris’ most famous avant-garde composers wrote music for Rolf de Maré and the Ballets Suédois about a surreal and spectacular wedding party: Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel.
Participants
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
More concerts
Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina – Russian opera in Berwaldhallen! An intense and powerful drama unfolds when Mussorgsky illustrates power struggles, love and religion in late 17th century Russia.
Focus on Ukraine
A concert in celebration of Ukraine’s Independence Day, featuring members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Ukrainian artists under the baton of the Ukrainian-British conductor Maxim Rysanov.
The Dream Kiosk – Family Show
The Dream Kiosk contains fairy tales, music, and dreams! Children’s radio host Ylva Hällen reads fairy tales to exciting music by Per Egland in this intimate and engaging concert for children ages 3–10!