Featured Performers

• Conrad Tao, piano
• Caleb Teicher, dancer
• Musicians of Pacific Symphony

Program

• COUNTERPOINT (Selections to include)
  GERSHWIN: Prelude No. 1
  Improvisation
  SCHOENBERG: Walzer, Op. 23 No. 5
  NOBLE/TATUM: Cherokee
  Honi COLES/Brenda BUFALINO: The Coles and Bufalino Soft Shoe (with talking)
  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116 No. 4
  GERSHWIN: I Got Rhythm (solo)
  GERSHWIN: Prelude No. 2
  GERSHWIN: The Man I Love
  RAVEL: Mouvement de Menuet (from Sonatine)
  GERSHWIN: Prelude No. 3

• TAO: Flung Out, for Piano and Chamber Ensemble
• GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue

Pre-concert lecture at 7pm by KUSC's Brian Lauritzen.

Join us for a centennial celebration of Gershwin's timeless jazz-inspired American masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue! Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher bring a thrilling interplay of virtuosic piano playing and dynamic tap dance in Counterpoint, as seen on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. Enjoy Gershwin’s masterpiece alongside Tao’s original companion piece, Flung Out, a bluesy reimagining that complements the vibrant melodies and rhythms of Rhapsody in Blue.

The kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music.

New York Magazine

Sponsors

Part of the Eclectic Orange Series
sponsored by the Jelinek Family Trust

Part of the Steven M. Sorenson Signature Artist Series, supported by the Steven M. Sorenson Foundation