Rosemarie Duval-Laplante and Jean-Michel Dubé join forces to present Ravel and Gershwin: two continents, two cultures, two geniuses! Discover their universe with impressionist colors and jazz rhythms in works written for 4 hands and arrangements with Ravelian sounds. Travel from Paris to New York in this first half of the 20th century in the company of these composers who admired each other, and who, what a coincidence, died the same year.

This concert is commented in order to guide listening to discover the music of Ravel (France) and Gershwin (USA). These explanations allow us to understand their influences, their creative processes in the context of the time as well as the repercussions of each other’s works. For example, Ravel integrates jazz into his music while Gershwin admires Ravel to the point of asking him for composition lessons. The works presented are written or arranged for piano 4 hands.