What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow: George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
with piano soloist Clayton Stephenson and the Berklee Contemporary Symphony
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Don’t miss an unforgettable musical performance that illustrates how traditions treasured by Africans enslaved on sugar plantations shaped musical styles across Latin America. Hear how African influences have endured and evolved across the centuries in today’s Latin music and culture.
Venezuelan pianist and composer Leo Blanco grew up playing violin in his country’s El Sistema orchestra program, but from an early age he was surrounded by folklore and music that blended Afro-Caribbean, European, and North American styles. His Sugar Road project confronts the history of the brutal sugar industry, while illustrating how African traditions survived through it all. Let this “warmly engaging” (The Guardian) artist share this powerful story with you.
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“Blanco is a phenomenon, and a warmly engaging one; technical refinement of this unaccompanied repertoire, which he has hitherto mostly restricted to his house, can only take him from strength to strength.”
John Fordham / The Guardian
with piano soloist Clayton Stephenson and the Berklee Contemporary Symphony
Race and Song: A Musical Conversation, featuring Boston City Singers
featuring youth ensembles from Boston Music Project, City Strings United, and Project STEP
in Cambridge, MA
in Groton, MA