Synopsis

Tonight's concert at the Royal Albert Hall features Colin Davis leading musicians from London's Royal Academy of Music and New York's Juilliard School. The program opens with two works born from the Second World War. Aaron Copland’s stirring *Fanfare for the Common Man*, composed in 1942, stands as a tribute to those engaged in the conflict. In stark contrast, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s somber Sixth Symphony, completed in 1948, evokes the desolation of the postwar years. The evening concludes with