Rhapsody in Blue November 4, 2006

From the opening clarinet smear, Rhapsody in Blue is a 20th century classic that transformed jazz from decadent to high art. In Peter Maxwell Davies’ musical Scottish wedding album, the orchestra rips through folk tunes at an increasingly inebriated pace until a bagpiper marches to the rousing conclusion. Beethoven’s bright and jolly Symphony No. 8 shows his humorous side.

Program:

An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Maxwell Davies

Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin

U-M Student premiere

Symphony No. 8
Beethoven

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