The Boston Globe raved about Charlie’s Boston Pops Opening Night performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which also featured Harry Connick Jr., conducted by Keith Lockhart.
For “Rhapsody” itself, Charlie Albright attacked his piano with hungry speed, more like a hotshot jazz pianist than a classical player. He took ample advantage of the free time of his solo sections, teasing out some passages and charging heedlessly through others; his quick crumpling of the ending notes of one passage garnered a laugh from the audience. And Albright’s choice of encore — a careening “Great Balls of Fire” — showed that Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t miles off from “Rhapsody in Blue.”
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