Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi perform Broadway and Hollywood in Four Hands

International Piano sensations, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, take you back to the times when Broadway and Hollywood vied not only for actors, captivating sets, and good scripts, but also for songs to hum on the way out of the theater.

When singer Al Jolson broke the silent film sound barrier in The Jazz Singer, composers like George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and others became active on Broadway and then also in Hollywood. Jazz and songs of the silver screen and stage became intertwined. The popular songs lent themselves to interpretation by jazz music greats, who helped the songs become the classics known today.

In this concert, Stephanie and Paolo join forces to bring you new arrangements of the great early Broadway and Hollywood songs, with piano styles ranging from ragtime to stride, boogie-woogie to blues, swing, even more jazz.

With one piano, two musicians, and entertaining…