When pianist Kevin Cole joins guest conductor David Alan Miller for the Sarasota Orchestra’s first Discoveries concert of the season Oct. 5, “Gershwin’s American Dream,” audiences will hear a version of the composer’s Concerto in F that may sound a little different.
Cole, considered one of the top Gershwin interpreters, and the orchestra will be working from a new critical edition of the concerto that was prepared as part of the University of Michigan’s Gershwin Initative.
“This has been a 10-year project and will probably be going for 30 years. They are restoring all of George Gershwin’s music back to the way he originally wrote it, without editors getting their fingers in it, which so many did after he died in 1937,” Cole said…