“Rhapsody” may lack the title of “concerto,” but its flashy solos and catchy tunes have attracted a century’s worth of famous pianists to Davies — including Gershwin himself in 193 ...
All three works on the program were composed within a few years of each other during “The Jazz Age” – Ibert’s “Ports of Call” in 1922, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F in 1925, ...
Atticus Coen is getting to know George Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F Major.” Until now, they’ve been strangers. “Never played it before, never heard it either,” said Coen.
But a Meyerson Symphony Center concert bookended by Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and Ravel’s Boléro clearly had populist aims. In varying degrees, all three pieces drew inspiration from folk ...