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PYGMALION: Sinfonia da Camera: Rhapsody in Blue at 100

Event Type
Performance
Sponsor
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Location
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Date
Sep 20, 2024   7:30 pm  
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Krannert Center

Join Sinfonia da Camera for an incredible season opener celebrating the centennial anniversary of George Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue! Featuring Maestro Ian Hobson as soloist and conductor, pianistic virtuosity takes center stage in this bluesy and brazen work for solo piano and orchestra. Gershwin "dresses up" jazz for the concert hall, providing a raucous celebration of both classical and jazz American musical idioms. Also featuring Czech masterworks, the program begins with the invigorating and folkish Overture to "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana. Next, Sinfonia principal violist Csaba Erdélyi is featured as soloist in the richly imaginative Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Bohuslav Martinů. After intermission, the evening concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s most famous work, Symphony No. 9 "From the New World." This melodic and dramatic symphony is a tribute to the United States after the composer visited the country.

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