Saturday, Oct 26th at 7:30
Sunday, Oct 27th at 2pm
NH Premiere Performance of Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue
Composer – Peter Boyer
Piano Soloist - Jeffrey Biegel
We are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”. This remains one of the most popular pieces of music composed in the 20th century, a crossover piece combining elements of jazz along with classical music forms. To celebrate the anniversary of this iconic work, Grammy nominated composer Peter Boyer has written an homage to Gershwin entitled “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue”. Boyer collaborated with Steinway artist Jeffrey Biegel to embark on a unique introduction of this new work for piano and orchestra. One orchestra in each US state will give the local premiere of the music over the next three years. The New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra was asked to be the New Hampshire based orchestra to play the state’s premier performance. This is a great opportunity to showcase the orchestra and will be one that we widely promote. This is not the orchestra’s first premiere performance of a new work, but it will be the first premiere on a national scale.