who composed music full of the energy and playfulness of New York City in the 1920s. Packed with Gershwin’s own dazzling piano solos, Rhapsody in Blue has become one of the most famous ...

But a Meyerson Symphony Center concert bookended by Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and Ravel’s ... Erin Hannigan’s oboe solos had a great singer’s expressivity. Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead ...

Written in 1924 for a crossover concert featuring classical music and ... famous clarinet solo at the beginning which was improvised during rehearsals and a huge solo piano part originally played ...

the music of Tin Pan Alley, the Manhattan strip where a teenage Gershwin had worked in the 1910s as a song plugger, an in-store performer made to push the latest sheet music for sale.“ ...