Soloist: Astanova, Lola

Soloist: Kim, David

Orchestra: All-Star Orchestra, The

Conductor: Schwarz, Gerard

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Composer: Gershwin, George

Composer: Copland, Aaron

Composer: Beaser, Robert

Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich

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Venue: Great Hall, Purchase College Performing Arts Center, New York

Date of Concert: 08-2014

Playing Time: 01:53:33

Television Director: Azar, Habib

Catalogue Number: 2.110370

UPC: 747313537051

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The All-Star Orchestra gives you a front row seat to the world's greatest music, performed by top players chosen from over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The programs feature complete performances of popular masterpieces and world premieres of new works by leading American composers. Filmed in High-Definition with 19 cameras during a once-a-year 'summit' in New York's historic Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center, the All-Star Orchestra celebrates the symphonic experience in the 21st century.

Program 9: Visions of New York

Gershwin's immortal Rhapsody in Blue is featured in the rarely heard original jazz-orchestra version from the 1924 premiere, with rising-star pianist Lola Astanova. This iconic work is paired with Aaron Copland's 1925 jazz-age classic Music for the Theatre. Robert Beaser's Ground O offers a modern musical perspective of New York after 9/11.

Program 10: 1001 Arabian Nights - The Legend of Scheherazade

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's exotic orchestral showpiece Scheherazade is based on fantastical tales that - according to tradition - were told by the ingenious wife of a cruel Sultan so as to prolong her life for 1001 nights. Concertmaster David Kim conveys the voice of the wily heroine in virtuosic violin solos. Take a musical magic carpet ride between the worlds of Arabian folklore and Russian romanticism.