Gershwin’s Jazz Piano by Candlelight: Rhapsody in Blue

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Enjoy a swinging, toe-tapping tour of jazz piano including showstoppers Summertime and Rhapsody in Blue by award-winning pianist Matthew Shiel.

About Gershwin’s Jazz Piano by Candlelight: Rhapsody in Blue

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Following their 5***** and sold-out show in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,

"Matthew Shiel has ‘composed’ a most enchanting concert, relating amusing, enlightening stories to introduce each piece; his eloquent performance expresses a dramatic, emotional mood from sad and sorrowful to light-hearted and lyrical, oozing a joyful sense of romantic love." (5***** Edinburgh Guide)

"A ripping good yarn. Sim and Shiel both are masters of their crafts." (5***** Binge Fringe Magazine)

"Matthew Shiel shone" (4**** Three Weeks)

Moonlight Concerts return to Edinburgh with a musical show inspired by 'The roaring 20s’ of Tin Pan Alley, New York; the rise of the Nazis and their violent repression of cabaret and jazz in 1930s Berlin; and Scott Joplin’s musical mission to end segregation across the American South.

Tonight, these world-changing musical events meet in a swinging, toe-tapping tour of jazz piano led by the acclaimed concert pianist and storyteller Matthew Shiel. His musical programme includes the most iconic jazz pieces ever composed: Joplin’s The Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag, Schulhoff’s Charleston and Gershwin’s showstoppers Summertime and Rhapsody in Blue – by intimate candlelight and alongside a digital art exhibition and light installation designed by acclaimed Chinese artist and Disney illustrator Emma Yitong Shen – to create an immersive musical experience which cannot fail to cure the ‘blues’ and have you clapping along!

Please note: Tonight’s performance is in memory of the Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894 – 1942) – who for the ‘crime’ of composing avant-garde jazz music was executed by the Third Reich.

PROGRAMME:

I Got Rythym, The Man I Love, Swanee and Strike up the Band (from his American Songbook) – George Gershwin

Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) – George Gershwin

The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, Spotlight Rag, Paragon Rag and Stoptime Rag – Scott Joplin

Blues, Chanson and Charleston (from Cinq Études de Jazz) – Erwin Schulhoff

Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin

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