Vakhtang Jordania Conducts American Symphony Orchestra in Program
of New American Works and Russian Orchestral Masterpieces

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel performs New York Premieres of Restored Manuscript
Edition of Rhapsody in Blue And His Transcription of Balakirev's Islamey
for Piano and Orchestra

NEW YORK, NY (December 14, 2000)-- On Monday night January 8th, 2001 at
8:00 PM at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, the celebrated conductor
Vakhtang Jordania will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in an evening
of premieres by American composers and Russian orchestral masterpieces.

Works on the program include Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger
(New York Premiere) by James Cohn; Peanuts Gallery for Piano and
Orchestra by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich; Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
(New York Premiere-Manuscript Edition); Islamey by Balakirev (World
Premiere-transcription for piano and orchestra by Jeffrey Biegel),
and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tickets for this concert are $45, $30 and $18 and are available at the
Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, through CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 or
online at CultureFinder - http://www.culturefinder.com/event?id=151561.

To read the complete concert press release and get more information about
the New York Premiere of the restored manuscript edition of Rhapsody in
Blue and the new transcription of Islamey, please log on to opt-inPROMO at
http://www.opt-inPROMO.com/jamesarts/pressrelease.htm.  To see the concert
poster, log on to http://www.opt-inPROMO.com/jamesarts/poster.htm.

For more information about conductor Vakhtang Jordania, pianist Jeffrey
Biegel or composer James Cohn, log on to Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
at http://www.jamesarts.com/artists.htm.

For more concert information please contact: Jeffrey James at 516
797-9166 or Tony Scafide at 516 220-2136.

Jeffrey James