Rhapsody

I'm your host, Denise Finnegan-Hill.

We have a Rhapsody now by Zenobia Powell-Perry, an American composer and teacher.

Here's a recording by the pianist LaDoris Hazard-Cordell.

Thank you.

so so So, Oh.

so so so Amen.

Pianist Ladoris Hazard-Cordell performed a Rhapsody by Zenobia Powell-Perry.

The latter part of the 19th century saw the idea of nationalism spreading across the European continent.

Rhapsody in Blue.

Mm-hmm.

Rapsodia en azul.

If you can find it, Rhapsody in Blue, and we'll just listen to the beginning.

It's brilliant.

Welcome to the Rose Rhapsody.

Thank you.

Rhapsody, enthusiastic expression of feeling, an epic poem of recitation, highly emotional utterance, literary, music in irregular form, stitched together, improvised, a collection of effusive, extravagant discourse, rapturous, ecstasy, ecstasy.

You're listening to a Rose Rhapsody.

And now, the read.

Chapter 8 In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expedition to the North Pole One fine day Pooh had stumped up to the top of the forest to see if his friend Christopher Robin was interested in bears at all.

I'm Christopher Lane.

You ready? You ready? So, one, two, one, two, three.

I'm going to marry the Countess's daughter, Camille.

And what made you fall in love with Camille Moque? When I heard her play A Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.

So the sense of what you're saying, then, is that you fell out of love with one and in love with the other.

Exactly, my friend.

Although the scene was cut in half in the editing room for the finished version of Delicious, Gershwin rescued the original full-length sequence.

After a judicious name change, the second Rhapsody was ready for the concert hall.

And I hope you're ready for the Rhapsody.

It's coming up in this hour.

And they can change it.

I've heard Daniel Trevinoff, Russian pianist, play the Rhapsody on a piano.

I've heard him play it.

He plays it.