This event has been postponed and will likely be rescheduled for June 2025. 

Join the Western Piedmont Symphony in celebrating the centennial of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Jeffrey Biegel and composer Peter Boyer launched the Rhapsody National Initiative with Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue, a vibrant new work reflecting the American landscape, with the pulse, energy and beauty of our shared identity as Americans. Western Piedmont Symphony is the only orchestra in North Carolina represented in this national symphonic project. Also on the program is the celebrated masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue, the lyrical and vivid Symphony No. 1 by living composer Adolphus Hailstork and the mesmerizing Bolero by Ravel.