I Hear A Rhapsody: The Classical Music of George Gershwin - One-Day
Symposium on April 6 at Hofstra University Features International Group
of Gershwin Performers and Scholars

Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY - The Hofstra University Cultural
Center will present I Hear A Rhapsody: The Classical Music of George
Gershwin on Saturday, April 6, in celebration of the rediscovered
classical music of one of America's greatest composers.  Panel discussions,
lecture-demonstrations and concerts will be presented during this one-day
event.

Gershwin's recently expanded classical solo piano repertoire will be
featured during this symposium.  These rediscovered and reconstructed
works have brought him even more recognition around the world as a major
American classical composer.  It is the musicological research of the
Joseph G.  Astman Distinguished Symposium Scholar Dr. Alicia Zizzo that
led to the publication of solo piano editions of The Annotated Rhapsody
in Blue, The Complete Seven Preludes, Blue Monday, Lullaby and others by
Warner Bros.  Publications under the auspices of the Gershwin estate.

The day-long event will conclude with a concert by pianist Jeffrey Biegel,
an internationally renowned Gershwin specialist, who will perform the solo
piano Rhapsody in Blue and other Gershwin works at 8:30 that evening in the
University's Monroe Lecture Center Theater.  Symposium highlights include:

11 AM - The Early Gershwin and the World Around Him panel discussion
featuring Dr. Zizzo, Edward Jablonski, author of The Encyclopedia of
American Music and co-author of The Gershwin Years, and Stuart Isacoff,
editor in chief of Piano Today.

1:45 PM - The Lost Piano Preludes and Newly Reconstructed Major Works a
lecture-demonstration featuring Dr. Zizzo, Washington DC-based pianist
Haskell Small, who will perform the solo piano An American in Paris and
Argentinean pianist Mirian Conti, who will perform the lost Preludes,
Lullaby for solo piano and Blue Monday.

3:30 PM - I Am an American: From Theater to Opera panel discussion
featuring Hofstra's Herbert Deutsch, the symposium director, Wayne Shirley
of the music division of the Library of Congress, Edward Jablonski and
Stuart Isacoff.

6 PM - Dinner featuring an address by composer and pianist Leopold Godowsky
III, nephew of George Gershwin.

8:30 PM - Jeffrey Biegel Concert

Complete symposium information, including the full day's schedule and
event locations, links to information about Dr. Alicia Zizzo, pianist
Jeffrey Biegel and an article titled George Gershwin: A Look Into His
Little Known and Previously Lost Piano Works can be found at

   http://www.hofstra.edu/CampusL/Culture/Culture_Gershwin.cfm

Registration for the symposium panels is $25, $20 for senior citizens.
Tickets to the dinner are $30 per person and tickets for the Jeffrey Biegel
concert are $20, $17 for seniors.  To register for the symposium, buy event
tickets or for more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at
516-463-5669.

For more information about Dr. Alicia Zizzo or Jeffrey Biegel, please
contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or
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