Music@Menlo Explorers Series: Kristin Lee performs Gershwin & Ravel
$25 ($90 4-concert subscription)
Maurice Ravel — Tzigane
George Gershwin — Porgy and Bess
Jascha Heifetz — Selected works
Kristin Lee, violin
Orion Weiss, piano
Maurice Ravel – Violin Sonata No. 2
George Gershwin, arr. Jascha Heifetz – "My Man’s Gone Now", "A Woman is a Sometime Thing", "Bess, You My Woman Now", "Summertime", & "It Ain’t Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane
Acclaimed violinist Kristin Lee joins forces with pianist Orion Weiss for "Mutual Admiration: Gershwin and Ravel" with Music@Menlo. In this program Lee and Weiss will show the best of France and America in musical synergy, inspired by the meeting of Gershwin and Ravel during Ravel's American tour of 1928. The duo will perform Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 45 and Tzigane for Violin and Piano, alongside Five Selections from Porgy and Bess for Violin and Piano. This event will be presented virtually.
The livestream will take place at 5pm Pacific.
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