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RHAPSODY IN BLUE

Out on the Town

June 11, 2016

by Wisconsin Gazette

Guest artist Jeffrey Kahane pulls double duty for this Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, both conducting and taking to the ivories for the program’s featured performance, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He’ll introduce the program with another piano work, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, before conducting two other American masterworks: Aaron Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

June 17 to 19 at the Marcus Center, Milwaukee. $17 to $107. mso.org.