Orchestra Iowa opens its 2024-25 season with “A Night on the Town,” which will also kick off the 50th anniversary celebration of Iowa’s Jazz Station. Befitting the partnership between KCCK and Orchestra Iowa, the orchestra will perform the first composition to marry jazz and classical, George Gershwin’s landmark piece “Rhapsody in Blue.”
In celebration of KCCK’s 50th, the Orchestra is offering 50% off tickets with the discount code SAVE50.
Special guests will include the UI’s William Menefield and Damani Phillips leading a quartet to perform another of Gershwin’s best-known works, “I Got Rhythm.”
KCCK’s Dennis Green co-hosts the concert, which will also featuring the title piece by Leonard Bernstein, as well as William Grant Stills, regarded as the first African American composer to to break the color barrier in classical music.
Sept. 14 at the Paramount and Sept. 15 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. Info at www.orchestraiowa.org.
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