Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue

FRI, FEB 2, 8 PM MEYERHOFF
SAT, FEB 3, 8 PM STRATHMORE
SUN, FEB 4, 3 PM MEYERHOFF

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Wayne Marshall, conductor and piano

COPLAND Music for the Theatre
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
BERNSTEIN On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
ELLINGTON Harlem

A noted Gershwin interpreter at the keyboard, Wayne Marshall celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue “a quick wit and a cool head, the ability to convey (just as Gershwin strove to do) the jazzman’s freewheeling, rhapsodic manner alongside a concert pianist’s formality.” (Gramophone)Leading three other American classics from the conductor’s podium, Marshall finds the common thread among Copland’s spiky tribute to the theater, Bernstein’s dreamy dance sequence from a Broadway hit, and Ellington’s tribute to the Manhattan neighborhood where Black culture soared.