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Ahead of Their Time: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue & Mahler 5

Name: Ahead of Their Time: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue & Mahler 5
Start: 2024-10-12T19:30:00
Location: Flint Institute of Music

Flint Institute of Music

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Pianist Kristhyan Benitez will bring his unique brand of virtuosity, charisma and poetry to this 100th-anniversary celebration of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. From the unmistakable opening clarinet wail to the final dramatic crescendo, “Rhapsody” captures a distinct moment in our history—the Jazz Age of the 1920s—that made it controversial at its conception and now quintessential to the American canon. In striking similarity, Mahler’s 5th ...

Program

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 5

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Participants

Kristhyan Benitez

Piano

Enrique Diemecke

Conductor

Flint Institute of Music

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1 dates (12 Oct - 12 Oct)