Stairway to Paradise

We hear George Gershwin’s “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise,” which jazz critic Carl Van Vechten called “the most perfect piece of jazz yet written” when it was first performed in 1922. Also, Erik Satie’s cerebral “Vexations” and David Byrne’s “High Life for Nine Instruments."

Also Featured Tonight:

John McLaughlin / Girls with Red Shoes
Louis Andriessen / Workers Union
Randall Thompson / The Eternal Dove
Carlos Chavez / Sextet for Piano and Strings
Frederic Rzewski / Mayn Yingele

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