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Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson - Jon Kimura Parker plays Gershwin


  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Concert Hall 2700 F Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20566 United States (map)

Performances: May 29-31

A stirring evening of American masterworks! Join us for George Gershwin’s jazzy Rhapsody in Blue featuring pianist Jon Kimura Parker and Leonard Bernstein’s ever-popular Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Joshua Weilerstein completes the program with William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony—a work once called “the most distinctive and promising American symphonic proclamation which has so far been achieved.”

Earlier Event: May 28
Minty Fresh Circus
Later Event: May 30
accio piano trio