Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

Downtown

When

May 17–19, 2025

Daily, Times vary

Cost: $25 +

Where

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205

Makato Ozone delivers his "thrilling, unabashedly personal rendition" (New York Times) of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue—a jazzy, kaleidoscopic tribute to the kinetic energy of America's cities in the 1920s. Composed the same year as Gershwin, Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin channels the turmoil of post–World War I Europe in a scandalous tale of sex, violence, and the supernatural.

Program

Derrick Skye: Prisms, Cycles, Leaps 
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Suk: Scherzo fantastique  
Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

Artists

Kevin John Edusei, Conductor
Makoto Ozone, Piano