Seattle, WA USA – Seattle Symphony – Gershwin

PERFORMERS
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Seattle Symphony
Xian Zhang, conductor

PROGRAMME
George Gershwin:
Piano Concerto in F
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
An American in Paris

VENUE NOTE
Spend an evening in the Jazz Age with a musical feast of George Gershwin. Music Director Xian Zhang conducts three works that define his legacy as one of our great composers, effortlessly combining cosmopolitan music with the new language of jazz. We open the concert with a pianistic tour de force: the Concerto in F, in the hands of the incomparable Hélène Grimaud. Then Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture captures all the energy and poignancy of his opera, including Summertime and I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’. Last but certainly not least, An American in Paris takes a musical stroll through the streets of Paris, with any homesickness banished by the city’s exuberance, the French atmosphere and the street noises.