Tonight’s first world premiere is a BBC co-commission with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington DC) 🇺🇸✨ Carlos Simon’s Hellfighters’ Blues features jubilant blues riffs, jazz shakes with brass solos written in the style of early ragtime players 🎺 The piece is heavily influenced by the life and work of James Reese Europe, the leading figure on the early 20th century Black American music scene in New York City 🗽 | BBC Proms