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7 July 2022

Video of the Day: Alison Balsom plays Bernstein’s 'Lonely

Town'

Performance taken from the trumpeter's forthcoming album, Quiet
City

In our next issue we're talking to trumpeter Alison Balsom about her new album

'Quiet City', a beautiful and poignant exploration of American music of the 20th
century, composed in the era of the explosion of jazz, and featuring music by

Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Ives, and from the iconic collaboration between Miles
Davis and Gil Evans.

A single from the album is now available, a newly edited version of Bernstein’s
'Lonely Town' from the ballet sequence of the composer's 1944 musical On the

Town, which depicts a visitor’s bewilderment and loneliness despite being in the
crowds of New York City. Alison Balsom has also recorded a wonderful video of the

performance, which you can watch here:

'Quiet City' is released on Warner Classics on August 26. You can read more about
it by clicking the story below, as well as listen to an earlier podcast with Alison
Balsom.