A Nashville Symphony New Year's Eve The Best of Gershwin, Strauss and More New Year's Eve

A Nashville Symphony New Year's Eve

The Best of Gershwin, Strauss and More
New Year's Eve, December 31, at 6 pm
Most tickets: $25, $45, $56, $68, $91
Listed pricing includes all fees.

Join us for a rousing sendoff to 2014 with an evening of festive favorites from Gershwin, Strauss and more.

Featuring
Members of the Nashville Symphony
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Christiane Noll and Doug LaBrecque, vocals
Simone Dinnerstein, piano soloist

Program to include
Gershwin – “I Got Rhythm”
Who could ask for anything more than this jaunty standard, originally performed by Ethel Merman in the 1930 musical Girl Crazy and later popularized Gene Kelly in An American in Paris?

Gershwin – “Embraceable You”
Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Gloria Estefan, Billie Holliday, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland — that’s a very partial list of artists who have covered this doe-eyed American classic.

Gershwin – “Rhapsody in Blue”
This beloved work’s loopy opening clarinet glissando must have shocked audiences in 1924, heralding as it did a never-before-heard hybrid of classical music and jazz.

Strauss – “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Best known to modern audiences for its use in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss’ elegant waltz opens with a slowly blossoming theme, punctuated by merrily chirping woodwinds.

Strauss – “Die Fledermaus”
Following the jail-dodging machinations of protagonist Einstein, the misfortunes of his unfaithful wife’s lover, and an elaborate revenge plot set at a masquerade ball, this operetta sings of uncorked champagne and schemes for a New Year’s kiss.

Lehár – “The Merry Widow Waltz”
This sweeping movement from Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár’s most popular operetta, The Merry Widow, practically whisks listeners across the ballroom floor. It was used to great effect in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.

Traditional/Burns – “Auld Lang Syne”
It isn’t New Year’s Eve until you’ve sung this beloved Scots poem by Robert Burns, set to the tune of a traditional folk song. The song's title translates loosely as “For Old Times’ Sake.”

For tickets, call the Box Office at 615.687.6400, visit us at One Symphony Place in downtown Nashville or buy online at NashvilleSymphony.org.