This is a Concert of music of the "Great American Songbook" featuring Concert Pianist and FAMU faculty member, Dr, Joanna Sobkowska. Accompanying her will be the String Quartet in Blue, performing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". Also featured on the concert will be Dr.Karl Barton, flutist and Deb Wentworth, vocalist. Dr. Barton will be playing the Gershwin "Three Preludecoms for Flute and Piano". Ms. Wentworth will be singing songs from the era.

The "Great American Songbook" is the loosely defined canon of significant 20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and show tunes: including composers Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein II, among others.

George Gershwin first performed his "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924, thus, Dr. Sobkowska and the Quartet are celebrating 100 years of this incredible composition on the beautiful Bechstein Piano on the stage of the Maguire Center. The concert is free and open to the public.