Mayor Michelle Playing Rhapsody in Blue with the Boston Pops

Although this concert happened last year, I  just recently saw this video of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu performing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the piano with the Boston Pops orchestra. Rhapsody in Blue is a difficult piece (rated as 10 out of 10 in difficulty on this site). I learned in this piece in high school, and I can attest to the fact that it is hard. I performed it as a duet with another piano, but she performed it as intended by Gershwin with an orchestra.  She plays it way better than I ever did (even memorizing it – I wasn’t even close to doing that), and she did it while pregnant!

 

About Jeff

Jeff lives in Silicon Valley, and attempts to juggle marriage, fatherhood, computer systems research, running, and writing.
This entry was posted in Music, Politics and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink.