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George Gershwin tribute in New Jersey with pianist Hyperion Knight

Hyperion Knight will be the pianist audiences are ‘longing to see’ when he performs a tribute to George Gershwin in his Centenary Stage Company appearance on Sunday, Oct 30 at 4 PM, as part of the “Jazz in the Box” series in the David and Carol Lackland Center in Hackettstown.

A soloist and recording artist whose performances are known for both their artistic breadth and personal air, Hyperion Night is a pianist equally at home in serious classics and popular standards.    His performances are hailed as “breathtakingly textured, rich and wonderful…” [The Absolute Sound],  with “Intoxicating elan, brilliant dexterity, and a shimmering nuance [New York Concert Review, Harris Goldsmith].   A Gershwin enthusiast, he has recorded two CDs devoted to unique arrangements of Gershwin’s music, and frequently performs both Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F, most recently with the Santa Fe, Long Beach, Tennessee, St. Joseph, New Mexico and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras.

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             The Sensible Sound called his Gershwin “nothing short of astonishing,”  and Fi Magazine described Hyperion as a “daredevil atop his gleaming, black-and-ivory.” Knight  is known as a consummate showman with a “liquid touch” and crystalline sound.

Tickets for Hyperion Knight are $17.50 in advance and $22.50 on the day of performance, and they may be purchased at the Centenary Stage Company box office, in the Lackland Center located at 715 Grand Ave in Hackettstown, or online at www.centenarystageco.org, and by phone at 908-979-0900.

            The performance of Hyperion Knight is made possible through the generous support of Mama’s and Café Bacci in Hackettstown. 

Lackland Center, 400 Jefferson, Hackettstown, NJ
40.853469848633 ; -74.82878112793

, Swing and Big Band Examiner

Rick Busciglio is a music historian who lectures on the period from 1930 to 1960 when the big bands and crooners made swing the king of popular music He has been a radio dj, PBS TV, & radio host.

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