I Hear A Rhapsody: The Classical Music Of George Gershwin new publications of george gershwin s music in over half a century. Joseph G. AstmanSymposium Scholar Alicia Zizzo Concert pianist, Musicologist Matinecock http://www.hofstra.edu/CampusL/Culture/Culture_Gershwin.cfm
Extractions: The Classical Music of George Gershwin was presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center April 6, 2002 This symposium celebrated, explored and presented the classical music written by one of America's greatest composers and songwriters, George Gershwin. George and Ira Gershwin's contributions to our popular music, theater music and film music filled the 20th-century world. Throughout his unfortunately brief lifetime, George Gershwin composed many works for concert audiences. His close ties to the world of theater and commercial music gave these works a very personal and unique American flavor. The symposium featured the newly expanded classical repertoire of Mr. Gershwin which has catapulted his name into the sphere of major American classical composers. Alicia Zizzo's musicological research led to the subsequent publication of all the new works by Warner Brothers under the auspices of the Gershwin estate. These are the first new publications of George Gershwin's music in over half a century.
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Extractions: Online Advertising Info ... Jan/Feb '99 > Glorious George Gershwin Published January/February 1999 Glorious George A Century After His Birth, George Gershwin's MusicFrom "Summertime" to "Embraceable You," Rhapsody in Blue to Porgy and Bessis Attracting New Generations of Fans By Edward Jablonski One day in the middle of the Jazz Age, an interviewer asked George Gershwin, "Didn't you play anything when you were a youngster?" "Nothing but hooky," Gershwin replied. True, up to a point, for he was an indifferent and absentee student, and later a high school dropout. His schoolboy behavior led his teachers to consider him a hapless case, and his studious, slightly older brother Ira was often called into the principal's office at P.S. 20 in Manhattan's Lower East Side to account for his brother's poor scholastic record. George's major accomplishment at the time was street games; he was the acknowledged roller skating champion of Seventh Street, around the corner from the apartment on Second Avenue where Morris and Rose Gershwin raised their family. It was here, in 1910, where
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Extractions: @import url(/css/mus/layout-enhanced.css); @import url(/css/mus/type-enhanced.css); This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. Great Composers Beethoven Gershwin Handel ... Andrew Staniland 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.
George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) Translate this page Home Page . Die Biographie von george gershwin. Der Komponist und Pianistgeorge gershwin wurde am 26. September 1898 in Brooklyn geboren. http://www.karadar.com/Worterbuch/gershwin.html
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
George Gershwin And The Player Piano 1915-1927 artists participation. george gershwin worked with several other pianistsfor these duetarranged rolls, twenty-three in all. On this http://www.richard-dowling.com/GershwinRollsNotes
Extractions: KICKIN THE CLOUDS AWAY: GERSHWIN AT THE PIANO Klavier Records K 77031 Liner Notes George Gershwin and the player piano 1915-1927 To augment his income and give his talent freer rein, Gershwin happily accepted offers in 1915 and 1916 from the Standard Music Roll Company and the Aeolian Company to make player piano rolls. He was paid at the rate of $35 for six rolls in a Saturday afternoon session, or five dollars each if he made fewer than six. (The average salary of Americans at the time was $15 per week, thus its not surprising that Gershwins immigrant parents didnt protest his decision to leave school.) Naturally, his first rolls were improvisations of Remicks and other Tin Pan Alley publishers tunes. The titles of these songs were sometimes quite ridiculous and reflected the carefree, Gatsby-era sentiment of the time: Arrah Go On Im Gonna Go Back to Oregon When Verdi Plays the Hurdy-Gurdy , and Youre a Dog-Gone Dangerous Girl are three of the stranger titles among the early Gershwin rolls. The producers at Aeolian must have been impressed with Gershwins abilities, for after just ten months work, Gershwin made rolls of his own first published song, When You Want Em, You Cant Get Em, When Youve Got Em, You Dont Want Em
GershwinG.more His teacher was R. Goldmark and the wellknown pianist and composer Charles 1267-16George gershwin at his piano s. G eorge began his professional career in http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/gershwin_george_english.html
Extractions: G eorge Gershwin was born Jacob Gershowitz on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York and he died of a brain tumor on July 11, 1937 in Hollywood, California. He was the second of four children from a close-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant family. George became one of America's first premier composers and his compositions are still used today as tool of teachers everywhere as examples of the American entrance to the musical world of Stravinsky, Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart. G eorge had two brothers, Arthur and Ira, and one sister, Francis (Frankie). Although George is the most well known of the family, his brother Ira was also a successful lyricist. In fact, if it weren't for Ira's interest in music, George's parents would not have purchased the family's first piano. Ira was going to study the piano when the instrument was brought into the family home, but it was George who took the immediate interest in it and immediately began to successfully play by ear he was only 10 years old. His parents invested some piano lessons in him and George began to study seriously at the young age of 12 years. His teacher was R. Goldmark and the well-known pianist and composer Charles Hambitzer. By 1914 he was working at the Jerome Remick publishing house.
Extractions: e-mail pao@loc.gov March 10, 1998 Press Contact: Helen Dalrymple (202) 707-1940 A four-day Gershwin Festival symposium, "The Gershwins and Their World," will be held at the Library of Congress March 13-16 to celebrate the opening of the Library's new George and Ira Gershwin Room in the recently renovated Thomas Jefferson Building. Admission to the symposium is by invitation only, but the press is invited to attend and cover the event. The program will include performances, talks, and panel discussions and will bring together a wide range of people actively working with and interested in the cultural milieu of the Gershwins. There will be performances of works by composers who were close to and collaborators with George and Ira Gershwin, as well as performances of the Gershwins' words and music, including some unpublished material. Program participants include William Bolcom and Joan Morris, Anne Brown, Angie Dickinson, Michael Feinstein, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Ned Rorem, Michael Tilson Thomas, and historians Gerald Bordman, Charles Hamm, Edward Jablonski, Robert Kimball, and Lawrence Stewart. The full schedule for the symposium is below.
Extractions: George Essihos lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He trained as a classical pianist but by the age of 40 had become fascinated by jazz. A chance meeting with Ahmad Jamal was the turning point in George's career, when he decided to re-invent himself as a jazz pianist. His style is unmistakable; he has a seemingly limitless capacity for improvisation and an amazingly active musical imagination. His concerts are fairly infrequent, so his devoted fans consider each to be a special event. This promted CBC Radio's Jurgen Gothe to say "George Essihos is the west coast's best kept jazz secret." In George's words: "My basic approach to jazz is classical: theme and variations, and use of extended patterns combined with impressionistic harmonies. Most players probably enter jazz through the blues, but many, including Bill Evans, Andre Previn, and Michel Petrucciani, started with intensive classical training. In jazz one is free to bend the melody and harmony to suit one's inventive whims. I don't believe in strict reference to the title or words of a song; these are usually added later anyway and they can limit one's imagination. So, I let the sounds carry me. If I were a singer perhaps I would think differently, but as a pianist I am searching for freedom and originality of expression." "Bill Evans has been my idol since the first time I heard his recordings in the early sixties. Listening to him made me realize that someday I had to learn to play jazz - I was strictly classical at the time. His lyricism and amazing technique (never flamboyant, always musical) impressed me just as much as the talents of my favorite classical pianists such as Gieseking, Horowitz or Glenn Gould. Gould, incidentally, was also an avid fan of Evans."
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Simply Gershwin Take a pianist known for his gershwin interpretations and engaging performance style Georgegershwin would have joined the audience in the standing ovation at http://www.concertartists.com/SimplyGershwin.html
Extractions: Everybody loves a Gershwin song, and this cabaret style show is perfect for a chamber or church concert series which wants to offer something in a popular vein, or for series in other settings which want a sure-fire audience pleaser. Paul Bisaccia, a favorite of concert series audiences around the country as a recitalist, and known to thousands more through his PBS all-Gershwin television special, teams up with tenor John Whitle. Take a pianist known for his Gershwin interpretations and engaging performance style. Take a vocalist who lights up the New York cabaret scene. Mix, and presto's wonderful. From "Swanee" to "I Got Rhythm," the show covers all of the important songs in the Gershwin song book, including, of course, "'S Wonderful." Paul Bisaccia , piano "For Gershwin interpretations, Bisaccia wins hands down." (American Record Guide)
Extractions: Transcript for: MR. WATTENBERG: Hello, Im Ben Wattenberg. This week Think Tank looks at the extraordinary life and phenomenal music of American composer, George Gershwin. Joining us is Hershey Felder, composer, actor, playwright, concert pianist and star of the one-man show, George Gershwin Alone. The topic before the house: The Fascinating Rhythm of George Gershwin. This week on Think Tank. He was a child of the jazz age, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He grew up on the streets of Brooklyn and served an apprenticeship in Tin Pan Alley. He wrote music for vaudeville acts, the musical comedy, the stage, the concert hall and the Hollywood lot. And in the process, he created something few composers can claim a new kind of music.
NPR : Performance Today For Saturday, September 26, 1998 . pianist LEON BATES PLAYS. pianist Leon Bates plays music by Georgegershwin to kick off a two hour gershwin centenary celebration. http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=26-Sep-1998
Extractions: These recordings come in several file formats: OGG ... Avi or MIDI OGG Music These demo music files require that you have an OGG player installed on your computer. You may download a free player from Microsoft, or Real Player. Composer Composition Byte Size Timing Hoagy Carmichael Star Dust 3,665 KB Herman Hupfeld As Time Goes By 1,834 KB Jerome Kern Yesterdays 2,207 KB George Gershwin Love Walked In 2,006 KB George Gershwin Our Love Is Here To Stay 2,341 KB Kurt Weill September Song 3,412 KB David Raksin Laura 2,439 KB Erroll Garner Misty 1,756 KB Maurice Jarre Lara's Theme from 'Dr. Zhivago' 1,760 KB Andrew Lloyd Webber Memory 2,819 KB OGG RealAudio Avi or MIDI MP3 Music These streaming demo music files require that you have an MP3 player installed on your computer. You may download a free player from the MP3 Site.
