Concert: Frontiers of American Music

Pianist Matthew Harrison and Vlada Yaneva return for another dazzling ”Masterworks Conversation” concert, performing beloved pieces music, enhanced by a lively narrative. In this concert, the pianists will demonstrate that there is nothing quite like American music. It moves and shakes with rhythms that jive and swing, it colors notes and entire pieces blue, it evokes melancholy landscapes, and like the country that gives it home, it defies definition. Just as explorers forged ahead into new territory, American Music pushes the boundaries of musical possibility to new frontiers. Join the musicians for a musical melting pot that journeys from New York to New Orleans, with masterpieces from the giants of jazz to the American classics, with a grand finally that brings both worlds together in Gershwin’s stunning Rhapsody in Blue. Ossie Davis Theater.