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Guest pianist Misha Dichter performs Gershwin's Concerto in F.
HyeKyung Lee's Climbing Tomorrow premiered in 2018 at the Eastern Music Festival and was conducted by Palm Beach Symphony Music Director Gerard Schwarz. It will be the first performance of this piece in Florida.
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HyeKyung Lee Climbing Tomorrow
Describing “Climbing Tomorrow,” she [Lee] said, “The piece is an abstract evocation of the contrasts between you-in-the-present (comfortable) and you-in-the-future (seeking something higher). The struggle between these is sometimes direct, with more tension, and sometimes indirect, without tension. As in all my music, it uses minimum musical materials to capture contrasting emotions in various textures and forms.”
Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue. It was written in 1925 on a commission from the conductor and director Walter Damrosch. It is just over half an hour long.