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I have been listening to a re-play of last Saturday’s Promenade Concert, given by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Mark Elder. The massive Lennigrad Symphony of Shostakovich was the main work but the concert opened with the first U.K. performance of ‘New Era Dance’ by Aaron Jay Kernis, an American composer I had not heard of before but who is apparently very highly regarded in his own country. The music was fantastic; wild, dissonant but lyrical and with constantly changing rhythms. The 160 members of the orchestra were fully stretched for the six minutes duration of