An American in Paris

The reduction for 12 Cellos of An American in Paris was born by a collaboration with the class of chamber music at the University of Music Luigi Cherubini in Florence. Besides having a precise didactic purpose, the reduction has the ambition to bring symphonic music in a concert hall made up by only violoncellists. The Symphonic Poem of  Gershwin has been reduced, for technical instrumental reasons, not entirely but only in some of its most significant parts. The instrumental breakdown follows a two-tier scheme, in order to have better dynamics and sound balance between the parts.