Gershwin and Bernstein

Yannick celebrates two toweringly gifted composers, seminal American voices of the 20th century. Gershwin’s Piano Concerto dances through cityscapes, brash and brilliant. Bernstein, whose works for the concert hall, opera stage, Broadway, and film formed the soundtrack of the century, is represented by his Broadway masterwork West Side Story , and his impassioned “Jeremiah” Symphony, an epic chronicle of a prophet and a people. The Orchestra’s 125th birthday celebration ends with a party! George Gershwin threw open the doors of the classical concert hall with his Concerto in F, seasoning the traditional form of the concerto with a belt of the blues and a jigger of jazz-age gin. It’s performed here by Hélène Grimaud, a pianist whose performances with Yannick and the Orchestra display a uniquely attuned relationship, as though they had performed together forever.