Tickets are available now for this year's cultural blockbuster event, "Swing with the Symphony! - the Bay-Atlantic Symphony's gala tribute to the "King of Swing" Benny Goodman featuring the renowned Dave Bennett and his Sextet and world-famous pianist Jeffrey Biegel on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. in The Music Box at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.

Tickets are $65, $50, and $35 and are available for purchase by calling 1-866-900- 4849, online at www.theborgata.com, or inperson by visiting the Borgata Box Office. The ticket price is subsidized by a generous grant from the PNC Arts Alive grant program.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony, under the direction of Music Director Jed Gaylin, will collaborate with one of today's premiere jazz swing artists in a program featuring many of the signature tunes of "The King of Swing," whose birth is being celebrated this year. Biegel will join the Symphony, performing George Gershwin's popular Rhapsody in Blue.

Clarinetist Dave Bennett is an authentic musical prodigy who brings to life the classic sound and music of Benny Goodman with incredible technique, style, beauty of tone, and naturalness. With his sextet and septet, Bennett has brought his Salute to Benny Goodman to venues throughout and United States and Canada, with a live recording on RKO Records.

Thrill again to those beautiful melodies and swinging rhythms that kept Goodman at the top of the charts during that wonderful era of the big bands.

Biegel has created a multi-faceted career as a pianist, composer, and arranger. His performances of the standard repertoire and contemporary classical works have been heard worldwide and in several recordings on the Naxos label. He performed the restored, original 1924 manuscript of the Rhapsody in Blue with the Boston Pops.