Philadelphia Orchestra – Eugene Ormandy conducts George Gershwin – An American in Paris and Robert Russell Bennett’s Symphonic Picture: Porgy and Bess*, with Jorge Bolet playing Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue**. 8/67, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York.

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George Gershwin (1898-1937)

*Studio recording (also 1967) in lieu of the concert performance.

**Previously posted, see below. Rhapsody in Blue not included in current post.

Jorge Bolet plays Gershwin with Eugene Ormandy & the Philadelphia Orchestra; Saratoga; August 13, 1967. | Also, Bolet plays Liszt in memory of Ormandy on the day that the conductor died: March 12, 1985.