KLCC 89.7 FM will broadcast Oregon Festival of American Music's
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
Tuesday August 11, 7:30-10 pm
The opening night performance -- part of this year's Festival Fine and Dandy, in the Age of Jazz 1921-1934 -- will sample the best of the 1920s, from the earnest emotional strains of the waning years of vaudeville and the scintillating playfulness of the emerging American musical comedy, to the hot and exotic jazz both uptown and down, and the vocalists who were bringing the threads of jazz, the blues and other musical impulses to mainstream popular culture on the stage, radio and shellac. A special counterpoint of the evening will be a tribute to the extraordinary Boswell Sisters, whose late '20s, early '30s sides backed by the studio-only Dorsey unit are wonderful examples not only of the 1920s Age of Jazz but of the Age of Swing to come.
KLCC will broadcast the performance in its entirety beginning at 7:30 pm. KLCC's Eric Alan and Cina Kraft will host the event from The Shedd Institute for the Arts, located at Broadway and High in Eugene.
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