The chameleonic banjo player Béla Fleck has a new album commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue,” which features new bluegrass and blues-influenced versions of the composition. Fleck joins us to perform and discuss the album.
Today marks 100 years to the day since George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” premiered at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. We speak to Colin and Eric Jacobsen, artistic directors of the orchestral collective The Knights, and pianist Lara Downes about the composition’s legacy and how they are each approaching it in new ways.
Actor Josh Radnor (“How I Met Your Mother”), has two new projects. Outside of being an actor, Radnor is also a musician, and he’s recently released his new solo album, Eulogy: Volume I. Radnor is also about to star in a new play at The Public Theater, “The Ally,” in which he plays a college professor named Asaf who is asked by students to sign a social justice manifesto, but the choice turns out to be much more politically complicated than Asaf first thought. “The Ally” is running at The Public starting on Thursday, and through March 10. Radnor joins for a Listening Party and to talk about the play.
We’re launching the 2024 edition of the Public Song Project! Today we share the details for this year’s project, and debut a contribution from Arturo O’Farrill, pianist and bandleader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. After the song, we’re joined by musicology professor Anna Celenza to dive more into the history of jazz in the 1920s.
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