NEW PHILHARMONIC | AN EVENING OF GERSHWIN

Kirk Muspratt, Music Director & Conductor
Kimberly Jones, Soprano
Bill McMurray, Baritone
Marta Aznavoorian, Piano

American music at its finest! Enjoy Gershwin’s unique mix of classical and jazz styles with his “Rhapsody in Blue” for piano and the orchestra’s “An American in Paris.” One hundred voices, orchestra, an award-winning pianist and our two soloists unite in the riveting songs from Porgy and Bess including “Summertime,” “I Got Plenty O’Nuttin,” “Bess You Is My Woman Now” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” Featuring the 100-voice Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus (Nancy Menk, Director). “Kim Jones sings the most angelic Summertime this side of Heaven.”  -Laurence Vittes, LA Reader