Rhapsody in Blue

Name: Rhapsody in Blue
Start: 2024-07-06T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Blossom Music Center

Schedule

Sat Jul 06 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Blossom Music Center | Cuyahoga Falls, OH

BERNSTEIN Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (trans. Fleck)
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
STILL Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American”
Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Béla Fleck, banjo
Béla Fleck's performance is sponsored by Budd and Judy Dworkin
Experience a fresh take on an American classic. Béla Fleck, “arguably the greatest living banjo player in the world” (NPR), marks the centennial of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with a dazzling new banjo transcription of this beloved showpiece. Conductor Brett Mitchell rounds out this all-American evening with orchestral gems by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and William Grant Still.