Name: Rhapsody in Blue
Start: 2025-03-12T19:00:00
Location: Alte Oper

Alain Altinoglu

hr-Bigband

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

The good kids become violinists in the orchestra, the cool kids play saxophone and join the big band – wasn't that how it was in school, and still is? Of course, it's a cliché. But big band and symphony orchestra are two very different worlds nonetheless. Here, however – for Gershwin's timeless classics – the two come together, along with Alain Altinoglu and the piano. Gershwin was the man who provided American music with both: the sophistication of the classical orchestral format and the slightly shrill sound of the jazzy, fresh wind section. And on top of that, he also gave us truly immortal hits like "Rhapsody in Blue," in which chief conductor Alain Altinoglu can show that he also cuts a dazzling figure at the keyboard. If, however, something blares out during the orchestral piece "An American in Paris," it's not the fault of any of the hr Big Band. No, Gershwin himself wrote car horns into his score. The good ones play the violin, everyone else wants to play the horn in the hr Symphony Orchestra.