In the decades after Gershwin's death in 1937, Oscar Levant became the recognized interpreter of Gershwin's piano music and the keeper of the flame.
Levant prefaced his encores with an announcement that he was "playing under the auspices of Mt. Sinai" (the high-profile Los Angeles hospital often patronized by the stars).
His first embrace with Judy Garland, he speculates, "may well be the greatest moment in pharmaceutical history."
as Oscar Levant
Spend an evening with Oscar Levant, famed wit, movie actor, author and above all concert pianist extraordinaire.
FEATURING THE MUSIC OF
Chopin
Oscar Levant
Rachmaninoff
Falla's Ritual Fire Dance
Aram Khachaturyan's "Sabre Dance"
and
George Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue