American Style

The fact that a classical conductor is also declared one of the best artists at a traditional jazz festival is unusual and offers special opportunities - for example, inviting him with an American program: from Gershwin to Bernstein to the symphonic jazz of Duke Ellington. But it is not just his awards as a jazz pianist at festivals in Chicago and Wisconsin or his performances as a chansonnier with songs by the music satirist Georg Kreisler that ...