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Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.

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.

Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk – and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.

A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican.