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Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

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It’s the roaring ‘20s! Gershwin wrote his signature piece Rhapsody in Blue about the same time Maurice Ravel was in Paris writing his Concerto in G, which was heavily influenced by American jazz. Hear both pieces as audience favorite pianist Natasha Paremski returns to the VSO in a program that harkens back to the decade of the Norfolk Symphony Orchestra’s first performance in 1921. Leading the VSO will be Akiko Fujimoto, who is quickly establishing herself as one of today’s most dynamic and nuanced young conductors.

Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano

Hindemith: Ragtime
Ravel: Concerto in G
Ellington: Harlem
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue