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A welcome return for this superb orchestra with its annual inspiring tribute concert to the genius of George Gershwin, featuring the renowned concert pianist James Pearson. A full supporting programme of the symphonic jazz of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman captures all the excitement of the great Carnegie Hall concerts of the 1940s which is brought to life under the baton of the charismatic and inspirational Paul Eshelby and features the awesome talents of the band's jazz soloists. The evening includes performances of Gershwin's spine-chilling third movement of Concerto in F, American in Paris and the original jazz orchestral version of Rhapsody in Blue as performed at its premiere in 1924. The Orchestra again performs the Richard Rogers classic Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, and Wally Fields' Concerto in Jazz.