Reynolda House Museum of American Art Hosts a Gershwin Pops

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art Hosts a Gershwin Pops Concert as part of Carolina Summer Music Festival

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (July 28, 2008) –- Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players in a concert of Gershwin favorites on Sunday, August 17 at 3 p.m. The program, performed by pianist Ruskin Cooper and violinist Jacqui Carrasco, will include "Rhapsody in Blue," "Rialto Ripples," and "Three Preludes" as well as selections from "Porgy and Bess" for violin and piano.

The Gershwin concert follows the August 16 Cinema Under the Stars screening of Woody Allen's film, "Manhattan," both a visual and a musical view of New York City that features Gershwin music in the background. The concert at Reynolda House is part of the Carolina Summer Music Festival, a series of August concerts held at venues throughout Winston-Salem.

The New York theme of the film series and the Gershwin concert anticipate the fall exhibition at Reynolda House, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York," on view from October 4, 2008 through January 4, 2009. The music of composer George Gershwin
(1898–1937) directly correlates with the art of his contemporary, John Sloan, the Ashcan School artist who arrived in New York City in 1904 and painted the street life, shop windows, parks, elevated trains, and the city dweller's experience. Likewise, much of Gershwin's music reflected the rapidly changing metropolis in which he grew up, composing his own tunes in Tin Pan Alley before moving into more rarified circles of the Broadway stage and formal concert halls as his music gained broad appeal.

For more information about the Gershwin concert and to purchase tickets, please call 336.758.5150 or visit reynoldahouse.org. Admission is $15, $8 for members and students.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings, and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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