Classical Blues

This program explores 100 years of the magic that happens at the intersection of classical and jazz. From danceable rhythms and hummable familiar tunes, to the discovery of  tantalizing new expressions of Boogie-Woogie and the blues, “who could ask for anything more?”

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David Baker: Blues (Deliver My Soul)

Gershwin, arr. Heifetz: Porgy and Bess

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blue/s Forms (solo violin)

Michael Abels: Iconoclasm (solo piano)

Errollyn Wallen: Woogie-Boogie

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano