Ravel et Le Jazz: Stephen Prutsman & Jeffrey LaDeur

The San Francisco International Piano Festival is thrilled to welcome back Stephen Prutsman to the stage for an evening of Ravel, Jazz, and a screening of Buster Keaton's 1920 comedy classic. Ravel's admiration for the jazz idiom and its performers went beyond fondness, and he went so far as to say,“You Americans take jazz too lightly... In my opinion, it is bound to lead to the national music of the United States." This turned out to be a mutual...