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Bolcom's Ragomania: A Nod to Gershwin and Blake

Published February 20, 2006 at 9:28 AM EST

Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra in this performance.
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Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra in this performance.

Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. This performance of "Ragomania" comes from the Aspen Music Festival, with Marin Alsop conducting the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

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