Extraordinary Benefit Concert for
World Monuments Fund
Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
William Eddins piano and conductor
I
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Overture from Strike Up The Band (1927)
George Gershwin / arr. Robert Russel Bennett (1894-1981)
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture (1942)
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (version for Paul Whiteman. 1924)
II
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1957)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
A Tone Parallel to Harlem (1951)
The funds raised will be used to support the restauration of a monument if Granada, which will be selected by a committee of experts by the end of May.
Charity Program full of Swing
The Granada Festival presents an extraordinary concert to support the World Monuments Fund, an international non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of monuments and cultural sites in the world. World Monuments Fund celebrates its 60th anniversary in the city of Granada, a very special place for the organization and where it has collaborated on several conservation projects in the Alhambra and the Albaicín for more than 15 years. American conductor and pianist William Eddins will lead the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada with a complete American program that looks at the universe of jazz and the musicals, represented by Gershwin's overture to Strike Up The Band and by the Symphonic Dances that Bernstein extracted from his masterful score for West Side Story. In between, a nod to the opera Porgy and Bess and Paul Whiteman's version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which Eddins himself will play. Closing the concert, Duke Ellington's symphonic jazz with A Tone Parallel to Harlem. A program with all the swing of the world.
