Gershwin and Gatsby

Come experience a program with works written in and inspired by the Roaring Twenties! Conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados will lead pianist Jackie Parker as he stuns in Gershwin’s Concerto in F, written hot off the heels of Rhapsody in Blue as the young composer sought to make his stamp in a genre steeped in centuries of tradition. Catfish Row Suite, an arrangement of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, will close out the program with its sweet evocations of summertime. Bring your dancing shoes to open the night with John Harbison’s Remembering Gatsby, a 1985 tribute to that quintessential novel and stay for a raucous visit to a roof-bound ox in Milhaud’s Le Boeuf su le toit (The Ox on the Roof).