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Extractions: Komponisten George Gershwin Biographie Werkverzeichnis Photo Gallery Home Page Die Biographie von George Gershwin Der Komponist und Pianist George Gershwin wurde am 26. September 1898 in Brooklyn geboren. Bereits mit 16 Jahren wandte er sich der Komposition zu, zunächst Schlagern, Songs, Musical Comedies und Revuen. MIDI FILE - Rialto Ripples Rag 1919 feierte er mit der Revue "La La Lucile" seinen ersten großen Erfolg. Für Paul Whiteman schrieb er 1924 die erfolgreiche "Rhapsody in Blue", ein Klavierkonzert mit Jazzorchester. MIDI FILE - Rhapsody in Blue Es folgten - unter anderem - das "Piano Concerto in F" im Jahr 1925, "An American in Paris" 1928, die "Kubanische Ouvertüre" 1932 und die Oper "Porgy and Bess" 1935. Gershwin starb am 11. Juli 1937 in Hollywood. Werkverzeichnis von George Gershwin Catalogue of G. Gershwin's Works Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble Studio Informatico Anesin
Extractions: George Gershwin Alone Also see John's review of Sweeney Todd Felder is an accomplished concert pianist, so he's able to perform this central aspect of Gershwin's character quite literally. He can play complex material ("Rhapsody in Blue" closes the show) as well as simple, catchy songs like "Swanee." As if to prove Felder is actually playing the piano (but more importantly to be able to view his physical technique) a mirror hangs above the piano so we can watch his hands on the keyboard. After years of seeing stage and film actors portray instrumentalists with their playing obviously faked, it's quite astonishing to see a skilled actor so able to perform the unique physical/musical demands of his character. An hour and a half is a short amount of time in which to tell a life story, even a life so tragically short as Gershwin's, but Felder's script covers a lot of ground. After the introductory bit on "I Loves You, Porgy," Gershwin tells his life story in generally chronological order, giving bits about his family and relationships, a good share of show business anecdotes and a few doses of music theory. He doesn't explain how we happen to be with him this evening. Are we to imagine we're in attendance at one of the post-show parties he liked to give? After he describes his own death, we might imagine he has returned to life to give a lecture on his life and work, hosted in a ghostly replica of his home. His demeanor is friendly and animated, but he remains a bit guarded, as if he would likely be if actually addressing an audience of strangers.
Extractions: George Gershwin Alone Where's the Market Theatre when you need them? Their intimate, elegant space that was so briefly a part of the Boston/Cambridge theatre scene would be the perfect spot. How lovely to while away an early summer's evening there with a gifted pianist and a couple of singers ambling through the Gershwin catalogue. No, make that several evenings. One would barely get us started. Anything to save us from Hershey Felder, a bumbling pianist, barely adequate singer and bizarre Gershwin impersonator. You can avoid him now through July 7th at the Loeb Drama Center where he is appearing in George Gershwin Alone under the auspices of the A.R.T. This one man (and a piano) show, written by Felder and directed by Joel Zwick, is described as "a theatrical musical composer imagination." By all reports, the show was a sensation in LA and wowed them in Palm Beach. To be honest, many at the Harvard Square opening seemed to be enjoying themselves. And I must applaud the audience for their prodigious knowledge of Gershwin (brother Ira, that is) lyrics during the sing-along (you've been forewarned. It's the encore after "Rhapsody in Blue"). I'm afraid I side with those perplexed New Yorkers who couldn't understand what this show was doing at the Helen Hayes Theater for some 100 performances last year besides keeping By Jeeves at bay. Not only can't Felder hold a candle to countless other pianists and singers who've done this material, but the patter that holds it all together (despite a go-ahead from the Gershwin estate) doesn't always manage to stick to the facts.
Extractions: For You, for Me, Forevermore MICHAEL FEINSTEIN piano and vocals by Adrian Tan I've always admired musicians who can play the piano and sing at the same time. What we need here in Singapore is a piano bar with its resident pianist crooning old love songs, novelties, humorous tunes and satirical numbers... an ice-cold cocktail, lush lighting, the occasional laugh from the table behind... Enough fantasizing on Café Casablanca...this is a CD Review. Michael Feinstein (left) celebrates the music of George and Ira Gershwin who together ruled an entire generation of American music with their wonderful songs; with such "whistle-able" melodies and witty lyrics, that still has audiences tapping their toes and singing along today. George, whose symphonic works were considered "amateurish" until
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Extractions: Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early career and influences Rhapsody in Blue Popular songs Other works for orchestra Porgy and Bess Aftermath and assessment Additional Reading Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Gershwin, George Encyclopædia Britannica Article Page 5 of 8 Other works for orchestra Gershwin, George... (75 of 3400 words) var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Gershwin, George."
Extractions: Your browser does not support script Press Room Photographs March 3, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE George Eastman House presents Gershwin to Gillespie: Portraits in American Music Photographs by top American photographers, such as Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz, capture the greatest American musicians and composers A salute to 20th-century American music is being composed at George Eastman House via the photography exhibition Gershwin to Gillespie: Portraits in American Music, on view March 19 through June 19. The exhibition offers glimpses into the lives and personalities of the greatest American musicians and composers, as captured by some of the most influential American photographers, including Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz. Among those depicted in the 50 featured photographs are George Gershwin, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, John Philip Sousa, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Aretha Franklin. "Individually, these images present us with portraits of determination, idealism and a strong sense of self. As a group, these images give us a wonderful cross-section of American musical life," noted musicologist Olivia Mattis, guest curator of the exhibition and organizer of the surrounding Gershwin to Gillespie festival. "These are complicit images involving a partnership between a number of America’s most perspicacious photographers and some highly creative American music personalities who were concerned about their place in history."
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Extractions: The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations [43 Records] Author: Jablonski, Edward. Title: George Gershwin. With an introd. by Harold Arlen. Published: New York, Putnam [1962] Description: 190 p. 21 cm. Series: Lives to remember LC Call No.: ML410.G288 J28 Dewey No.: 780/.924 B 92 Notes: A biography of a successful song writer, from the early influence of his boyhood friend, a violin prodigy, to his untimely death at age thirty-nine. Discography: p. 161-177. Bibliography: p. 179-180. Subjects: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Control No.: 62010973 /AC/r85 Author: Museum of the City of New York. Title: Gershwin: George, the music, Ira, the words. A catalogue of the exhibition. May 6 through September 2, 1968. Published: [New York, 1968] Description: 30 p. facsims., ports. 24 cm. LC Call No.: ML141 .N4G5 Dewey No.: 781/.972 Subjects: Music Exhibitions. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 Bibliography Catalogs. Gershwin, Ira, 1896- Bibliography Catalogs. Control No.: 68004875 /MN/r962 Author: Altman, Frances. Title: George Gershwin, master composer. Published: Minneapolis, T. S. Denison [1968] Description: 235 p. 22 cm. Series: Men of Achievement series LC Call No.: ML410.G288 A4 Dewey No.: 780/.924 B Notes: Bibliography: p. 233-235. A biography of the son of New York ghetto immigrants, who blended the sounds and moods of America into popular songs, musical comedies, folk opera, and serious compositions. Subjects: Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Control No.: 68029773 /MN/AC/r96
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Extractions: aco homepage concert schedule by Carol J. Oja With the composers brought together in "The Gershwin Circle," a fresh perspective emerges on Gershwin's impact. Oscar Levant and Vernon Duke (aka Vladimir Dukelsky) both spun within Gershwin's orbit–Duke as a fellow composer of popular songs, also as a collaborator with George's brother Ira, and Levant as Gershwin's amanuensis and foremost interpreter at the piano. Focus has most often been placed on Gershwin's impact on his American modernist contemporaries, whether Aaron Copland in the Piano Concerto or George Antheil in his Jazz Symphony. These figures identified primarily with the concert hall. To incorporate jazz, they reached down from an artistic position of accepted authority to elevate an idiom they regarded with varying degrees of condescension. The real change for Levant as composer came in 1935, when he began studying with Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. At the same time, Levant was writing tunes for films produced by the Fox and RKO studios. Schoenberg's appointment books, as recounted in Sam Kashner and Nancy Schonberger's illuminating book, A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant, show that Levant worked with Schoenberg from April through September 1935 and again from October 1936 through November 1937. During this period, Levant wrote the piano concerto featured here, as well as a string quartet and Nocturne for orchestra. Levant's Piano Concerto embodies these contradictory forces–the blues-based harmonies and pulsating rhythms of Gershwin and the atonality of Schoenberg. Levant himself called the work an "exercise in relentless atonality," but it ranges much wider than that, even including a "boogie woogie" passage, as Levant termed it. It sounds like Gershwin in an acid bath.
Extractions: main page aco homepage concert schedule ... email ACO launched its three-year Millennium celebration with "The Gershwin Circle" a concert of music for piano and orchestra by Gershwin and musicians in and around his sphere of influence: these were Vernon Duke (also known as Vladimir Dukelsky), Oscar Levant and Maurice Ravel . Four piano soloists shared the spotlight: Scott Dunn offered the world premiere of Vernon Duke's Piano Concerto in C (which Dunn orchestrated), Alan Feinberg took the honors in Oscar Levant's concerto , Ursula Oppens tackled the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto , while Leon Bates performed Gershwin's less-well-known Rhapsody No. 2 [Click here to read an essay by noted musicologist Carol Oja about Gershwin and his collaborators] Unusual for an ACO program, none of the composers represented is alive today. Consequently, many listeners commented on how audience perception of these works may have changed over the years: "It is difficult to say how our perception of these works has changed over the years
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Extractions: Leonid Grin and Marcus Roberts talk about the 'glorious noise' of George Gershwin By Eric Johnson 'V ARIOUS COMPOSERS have been walking around jazz like a cat around a plate of hot milk, waiting for it to cool off. Lady jazz, adorned with her intriguing rhythms, has danced her way around the world. But she has encountered no knight who could lift her to a level that would enable her to be received as a respectable member of the musical circles. George Gershwin seems to have accomplished this miracle. He has done it by dressing this extremely independent and up-to-date lady in the classical garb of the concerto. He is the prince who has taken Cinderella by the hand and openly proclaimed her to be a princess to the astonished world." The gushing sentiment contained in these words, which the conductor Walter Damrosch spoke at the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue in 1926, probably shocked no one. Gershwin was the most popular songwriter in America, and it's likely that the sophisticated swells in the audience at Carnegie Hall, done up in their ball gowns and tuxedos, had on other nights, when nobody was looking, cried over "But Not for Me" or wiggled their booties to "Fascinatin' Rhythm." Gershwin was a pop genius, and the fans who came to witness his symphonic adventure probably expected to be amazed.
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Extractions: Reference Desk Encyclopedia Gershwin, George Pronunciation Key Gershwin, George Goldmark, Karl George White's Scandals Lady, Be Good! Oh, Kay! Funny Face Girl Crazy (1930), and George S. Kaufman's Of Thee I Sing (1931; Pulitzer Prize). In many compositions Gershwin combined traditional musical forms with jazz and folk themes and rhythms. They include Rhapsody in Blue (1924), a symphonic jazz composition for jazz band, piano, and orchestra; the Piano Concerto in F (1925); An American in Paris (1928), a tone poem incorporating elements of jazz as well as realistic sound effects; Porgy and Bess His brother, Ira Gershwin, Weill , Jerome Kern , and Harold Arlen See biographies by I. Goldberg (new ed. 1958), D. Ewen (rev. ed. 1970), E. Jablonski (1987), and W. G. Hyland (2003); C. Schwartz, Gershwin: His Life and Music (1973); R. E. Kimball and A. E. Simon, The Gershwins (1973); I. Gershwin
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Extractions: This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. ArtsAlive.ca More for: Extended version of AGuide to Gershwin available for download. Morris Gershovitz, George Gershwin's father, moved from Russia to New York, U.S.A. in 1890. You see...Greenstein was Morris' uncle and he knew where Rose was. Morris not only found Rose, but he married her in 1895. Morris, Rose and Uncle Greenstein had left their country to escape the pogroms (murdereous raids) that threatened them every day. Many other Russian Jews had also emigrated for the same reason. Morris and Rose Gershovitz were poor, but they were happy. They had four children: Ira (1896), George (1898), Arthur (1900) and a daughter, Frances (1906). To seem more American, they changed their Russian last name from Gershovitz to Gershwin.
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Extractions: Concertante for Alto Saxophone and Symphonic Band George Gershwin La La Lucille . A fifteen minute effort produced Swanee , made famous by Al Jolson. The team of George and older brother, Ira, as lyricist, wrote more than a dozen successful musicals, including Oh Kay! Strike Up the Band Funny Face , and Girl Crazy , between 1919 and 1933. In 1924, he forgot a commitment he made to bandleader Paul Whiteman and was compelled to compose his Rhapsody in Blue in just 3 weeks.
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