Pianist Jeffrey Biegel To Perform Solo Piano Edition of Restored
Original Manuscript of "Rhapsody in Blue" at New York's Bargemusic
on December 2 & 3

The internationally renowned pianist Jeffrey Biegel will present two
performances of the solo piano edition of the restored original manuscript
of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" on Thursday, December 2 and Friday,
December 3, 7:30 PM each night at Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing near
the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Biegel will also present the Liszt solo-piano arrangement of
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, as well as Grieg's Holberg Suite.

Until Warner Bros. published Dr. Alicia Zizzo's Annotated Rhapsody in
Blue in restored original manuscript solo piano and orchestral editions,
no other score existed to allow the pianist an authentic range of
interpretive options.  Through Dr. Zizzo's work with the Library of
Congress and the Gershwin Estate, re-inserting lost passages and restoring
original chords, phrases and other markings, Gershwin's highly distinctive
style reveals itself as it was originally intended.  You can read much
more about this edition at http://www.jamesarts.com/AZRHAPNOTE.htm and
http://www.jamesarts.com/zizzo/AZ_GershwinBlue.htm.  Warner Bros has
also published Dr. Zizzo's solo piano edition's of Gershwin's Seven
Preludes, Blue Monday, Lullaby and the "I Got Rhythm" Variations.

Tickets for the December 2 and 3 concerts are $35, with discounts for
students and seniors.  For tickets or more information, please contact
Bargemusic at 718-624-2083 or 718-624-4061 or visit them online at
http://www.bargemusic.org/.

Referred to by Leonard Bernstein as "a splendid musician and a brilliant
performer," pianist Jeffrey Biegel performed the American premiere of
the fully restored original 1924 manuscript of George Gershwin's Rhapsody
in Blue with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in Boston.  He has
subsequently performed this piece with orchestras across the U.S. and
in Germany.  He has also presented performances from Maine to California
of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Millennium Fantasy for piano and orchestra, a
work he commissioned in collaboration with 26 American orchestras and
which was Premiered in September of 2000 with the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting.  Jeffrey Biegel's website is
at http://www.cyberecital.com.

For more information about pianist Dr. Alicia Zizzo, contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 - tel & fax or by E-mail at
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Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com