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New Year’s Concert
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In 1926 the 28-year-old George Gershwin travelled to the French capital, determined to study under Maurice Ravel. Their meeting was warm, but lessons were out of the question – ‘Why should you be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin?’ And so Gershwin crossed the pond again, taking the sound of a few Parisian taxi horns home as a souvenir. Two years later, he incorporated them into the orchestration of An American in Paris, a ...
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1 dates (9 Jan - 9 Jan)
Jan
9
Sat
8:00 pm
BOZAR
Brussels, Belgium
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