The Philadelphia Orchestra: Aaron Diehl Plays 'Rhapsody in Blue'
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Aaron Diehl, piano
Duke Ellington – Solitude
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (original jazz band version)
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
“There’s an entire world of jazz in Aaron Diehl’s playing. ... Diehl’s agile mind is just one of several aspects of this performance that makes it so good.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer. The supremely talented pianist joins the Orchestra for a mesmerizing performance of Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue. Enjoy the rare opportunity to hear the piece in its original instrumentation for jazz band, following Duke Ellington’s jazz standard Solitude.
Closing the program is the Suite from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, composed just a few years earlier in 1920. Stravinsky, the Modernist composer of The Firebird and The Rite of Spring, shocked collaborators and audiences with the return to a more traditional 18th-century sound. He wrote that “Pulcinella was my discovery of the past,” but it was also a “look in the mirror” – an integration of old and new that would define the next phase of his career.
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The broadcast will premiere October 27, 2021 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. Available until November 3, 2021 at 11pm Eastern / 8pm Pacific.
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