Compact Discoveries 182: Jazz Concertos
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
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The music includes Harry Reser's Suite for Banjo and Orchestra, James Price Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody, and Dana Suesse's Concerto in Three Rhythms. Performers include the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg, pianists Michael Gurt and Gary Hammond, and banjoist Don Vappie.
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Piece Description
The music includes Harry Reser's Suite for Banjo and Orchestra, James Price Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody, and Dana Suesse's Concerto in Three Rhythms. Performers include the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg, pianists Michael Gurt and Gary Hammond, and banjoist Don Vappie.
Broadcast History
This is the world première.
Transcript
Compact Discoveries®
a series of one-hour radio programs produced, written, hosted, and edited by Fred Flaxman
©2011 by Fred Flaxman
Program 182
"Jazz Concertos"
MUSIC: excerpt from Reser: Suite for Banjo and Orchestra, second movement), performed by Don Vappie, banjo, with the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg [Naxos 8.559647, Track 3] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman, and I’m going to devote the next hour to a very interesting CD on the Naxos label called “Jazz Nocturne.” The subtitle is: “American Concertos of the Jazz Age.”
MUSIC: Fades out
In his famous novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “the Jazz Age” to describe the flamboyant era that emerged in America after World War I.
George Gershwin’s immortal Rhapsody in Blue is the most famous jazz c...
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