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RPO: Rhapsody in Blue at 100!

Name: RPO: Rhapsody in Blue at 100!
Start: 2024-02-19T19:30:00
Location: Eastman Theatre

Eastman School of Music

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The fascinating rhythms of George Gershwin will fill Kodak Hall as Jon Nakamatsu joins Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik to celebrate the centennial of “Rhapsody in Blue,” which they recorded together with the RPO to great acclaim in 2006. They also perform Rachmaninoff’s ravishing Second Piano Concerto. And, Jeff Tyzik conducts two electrifying showpieces: the Danzón No. 2 of Márquez, and Respighi’s thundering “The Pines of Rome.”

Program

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 2

Composer

Arturo Márquez - Danzón No. 2

Composer

Ottorini Respighi - Pines of Rome

Participants

Jon Nakamatsu

Piano

Jeff Tyzik

Conductor