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Extractions: My dear father introduced me to these recordings on LP back in the late 1970's. I was a very young piano student trying to tackle Schumann's Carnival at the time, and laying in bed in the dark listening to S. Rachmaninoff whisking through it like spring birds among the trees effortlessly in complete... more info Customer Rating: This was my first classical album which, years later, I purchased again when it was available on CD. Many of the pieces will be familiar to those who love traditional church music, but of course, Biggs is not a regular church organist. The pieces are so precisely planned and presented that they have... more info Customer Rating:
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Extractions: page: American pianist and singer Michael Feinstein has had a lifelong fascination with the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He cites Al Jolson and Bing Crosby as his earliest musical influences, but among the most important were George and Ira Gershwin. An avid collector of their recordings since he was a boy, Feinstein became an archivist for Ira Gershwin, in which capacity he was able to study rare recordings and unpublished material by the Gershwins. A popular performer in clubs and on the concert tour, Feinstein has also put out twenty albums, two of which were nominated for Grammy awards. Sponsor Message. Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio"not exactly a hotbed of musical activity, especially for . . . show music," as he admitson September 7, 1956, already well after the heyday of the songwriters that he would come to admire. Music was a part of Feinstein's life from his earliest days. His father, Edward Feinstein, a meat salesman by trade, was a member of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America and took his young son along to the meetings. His mother, Florence Mae Cohen Feinstein, an amateur tap dancer, shared his father's "great passion for music," according to Feinstein.
Extractions: Attention Wizards! Here's Your Complete Guide to "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" "Six Feet Under" Season 4 Premiere Photos News, June 3: Jackson Escapes Charges in Los Angeles, Jessica Simpson Sues Over T-Shirt, Dennis Quaid Engaged, More Hollywood.com Exclusive! "De-Lovely" Movie Clip ... DSL Raconteur, TV personality, concert pianist, self-described "verbal vampire" and sometime supporting player in films. Levant had originally planned a career as a concert pianist but, after playing in dance bands and becoming George Gershwin's protege, he devoted himself to interpreting the composer's works and, utilizing his own eccentric personality, played character parts or more accurately variations on his own character in films. He did, however, enjoy considerable success as a concert pianist and, at one point in the 1940s, was the highest paid concert artist in the US. More...
Extractions: var AID="09805072_1"; Oscar Levant is remembered chiefly for two things: his recordings of classical piano musicparticularly the works of his friend George Gershwinand his appearances as a lovably neurotic sidekick in several movies, among which the musicals An American in Paris and The Band Wagon are probably the best known. ...By the 1980's, the comic mode to which Levant gave impetus, and whose practitioners ranged from Lenny Bruce to Woody Allen, had degenerated into self-indulgence and belligerence... ...By the early 50's, both Levant's career and his life were beginning to fall apart... ...The authors make out Levant's life to be a painful, futile struggle of talent with selfdestructiveness, with the latter ultimately winning out... ...A strange kind of insecurity indeed... ...Encapsulating and recasting his experiences in book form in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac and The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Levant managed to hit the best-seller list twice again in his final creative brushes with fame... ...SUCH is the basic outline of a rich, complex, and truly surprising life, told well by the husband-and-wife team of Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger...
A Talent For Genius oscar levant was the Amadeus of Hollywood, the oscar Wilde of An astonishingly giftedconcert pianist (and the premier interpreter of Gershwins http://www.silmanjamespress.com/book_description/talent_genius.html
Extractions: He penned three popular volumes of autobiography; made more than 100 recordings, including a version of Rhapsody in Blue that remained a bestselling classical record for ten years; and appeared in thirteen films, including An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, and Rhapsody in Blue, in which he literally played himself, best friend to George Gershwin.
Class Act: Composers: "L" Letters, Will Compositions used in films on Class Act Has Anybody HereSeen Kelly? levant, oscar (1906 1972) Concert pianist/composer/actor. http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/compl.htm
KQED Programs AZ American In Paris Broadcasts Jerry s and his best friend Adam Cook (oscar levant), a wouldbe concert pianist,sing and dance their way through Paris until Jerry resolves his dilemma. http://www.kqed.org/.program-archive/tv/1/10/7495.jsp
:: The Youngstown Symphony :: The acerbic pianist oscar levant saw little of worth in Schillinger s music systemwhich involved all manner of mathematical and graphical treatments, but http://www.youngstownsymphony.com/oct03.html
Extractions: Gershwin composed his Cuban Overture in July, 1932. Initially written out in a one piano, four hands version, he transcribed it for orchestra between August 1-9. The premiere took place a week later at an all-Gershwin concert in Lewisohn Stadium with the orchestra conducted by Albert Coates. The piece was listed on the program as Rhumba, its original title. The Youngstown Symphony last performed this work on May 12, 1984 under the direction of Peter Leonard.
WESTWOOD CEMETERY levant, oscar, 190672, COMPOSER, pianist, WIT. MARTIN, DEAN, 1917-95,SINGER, ACTOR, JERRY LEWIS FILM PARTNER 50s, MATT HELM MOVIES 60s. http://www.yournorthvillage.org/PAGES/P_WWCEM.html
Extractions: AIDMAN, CHARLES 1925-93, TWILIGHT ZONE "LITTLE GIRL LOST" '59 ARDEN, EVE 1907-90, OUR MISS BROOKS '52-56 AUBREY, JAMES T. 1919-94, PRES. CBS '59-65, FATHER OF ACTRESS SKYE AUBREY AYRES, LEW BACKUS, JAMES (JIM) 1913-89, VOICE OF MR. MAGOO, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, THURSTON HOWELL III BASEHART, RICHARD 1914-84, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, FILM '64, TV SERIES '64-'68 BISSELL, WHITNER N. 1909-96, SOYLENT GREEN '73 BLOCH, ROBERT A. 1917-94, AUTHOR, PSYCHO '60 BRICE, FANNY 1891-51, COMEDIENNE, SUBJECT OF MOVIE FUNNY GIRL CABOT, SEBASTIAN 1918-77, MR. FRENCH, A FAMILY AFFAIR, '66 CAHN, SAMMY
Celebrities moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1976, he met oscar levant s widow, who Feinsteinthen launched a career as a pianist and singer of standards, playing http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/starstruck/feature/?sernum=71
OFAM Discography PERFORMER(S) (Arranged by last name of the pianist) oscar levant, piano ; PhiladelphiaOrchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor DOUGLASS PHONODISC DMds 7380. http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/OFAM2000.html
Extractions: Le Jazz Hot: Americans in Paris, 1919 - 1955 A Discography of Resources for Listening, Reading and Viewing in the Knight Library's Music Services and Media Services Collections This is a list of resources to accompany the 2000 Oregon Festival of American Music's (OFoAM) programs. These resources are available in the UO's Knight Library in the Douglass Room, Music Services, and Media Services Collections . The recordings do not circulate outside the Library, except to the faculty and Graduate Teaching Fellows of the University of Oregon. Videocassettes and discs circulate to the faculty and graduate students of the University of Oregon. Paper versions of this listing are available at the Douglass Room Listening Desk. Lists by OFAM Session: Americans in Paris The French Connection Hot Paris Nights La Joie de Vivre ... OFAM Presenters: A Bibliography of Their Writings Americans in Paris Performers: Victor Steinhardt, Dick Hyman, Howard Alden, Lenanne Sylvester, Shirley Sachs, Johnny Frigo, Bucky Pizzarelli, The Festival Jazz Band Note: For books on Americans in Paris, see
: An American In Paris (1951 Film Soundtrack) And the oscar levant piano pieces are as close to George sitting down at the Manyagree that the talented George Gershwin is a fabulous pianist, and alongside http://thinks.com/cgi-bin/music/music.pl/item-B0000033JE/cds.htm
Extractions: Tracks: Main Title: An American in Paris/'S Wonderful/I Got Rhythm - MGM Studio Orchestra Paris Narration/Left Bank - MGM Studio Orchestra Nice Work If You Can Get It [Outtake] - Georges Guetary Embraceable You - MGM Studio Orchestra By Strauss - Georges Guetary Street Exhibit - MGM Studio Orchestra I Got Rhythm - Gene Kelly Medley: My Cousin in Milwaukee/A Foggy Day/The Half-Of-It Dearie Blue - Oscar Levant Tra-La-La - Gene Kelly I'm No Enemy (Love Is Here to Stay) [Outtake] - MGM Studio Orchestra Love Is Here to Stay - Gene Kelly Medley: What Time Is It?/Love Is Here to Stay (Reprise) [Outtake] - Gene Kelly
Great Performances: Carnegie Hall - Behind The Scenes Once, on a crosscountry train trip from New York to Los Angeles that he was makingwith his great friend, pianist oscar levant, George crawled into the lower http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/carnegiehall/html/behind.html
Extractions: "Self-portrait in an Opera Hat," by George Gershwin. Click on detail for larger view. (43K) "My Body," a self-portrait by Ira Gershwin. Click on detail for larger view. (33K) Telegram of condolences sent by the Marx Brothers upon George's death. Click on detail for larger view. (28K) Photo credits: Self-Portrait in an Opera Hat, a self-portrait by George Gerswhin, 1932. Courtesy of Judy Gershwin. My Body, a self-portrait by Ira Gershwin, 1932. Courtesy of the Ira and Leonore Gerswhin Trusts. A telegram of condolences sent by the Marx Brothers to Ira Gershwin upon the death of George Gershwin, 1937. Courstesy of Music Division, Library of Congress. The Rose Museum Exhibit at Carnegie Hall: A Virtual Tour By John Ardoin T o celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gershwin's birth in September, 1998, Carnegie Hall opened a remarkable exhibition of memorabilia of the Gershwin brothers George and Ira in its Rose Museum. (The exhibition runs through October 4, 1998, and is open daily from 11:00 am to 4:30 p.m., except Wednesdays. Admission is free. For further information, call 212-903-9629.) The show's title, "Nice Work If You Can Get It," was borrowed from one of the brothers' best-known songs, and, as the catalogue published by Carnegie Hall observes, the two men were opposites in personality, lifestyle, and creative pursuits: "George and his brother Ira represent a unique and perhaps the most successful collaboration in American music. George the composer and pianist, with his musical ability, charismatic personality, energy and ambitious drive, became internationally famous while still in his early twenties and died tragically at the age of thirty-eight.
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Extractions: The Mentor Hall of Fame. Quelle: Peer Resources - The Mentors Corporation, Canada Actors, Comedians, Producers and Directors (Stage, Screen and TV) Jack Lemmon mentor to Kevin Spacey Gary David Goldberg mentor to Michael J. Fox Warren Beatty mentor to Diane Keaton Gilda Radner mentor to Catherine O'Hara Philip Burton (schoolteacher) mentor to Richard Burton Jonathan Winters mentor to Robin Williams Lee Stasberg mentor to Ellen Burstyn Roman Polanski mentor to Nastassja Kinski James Dean mentor to Dennis Hopper Mauritz Stiller (movie maker) mentor to Greta Garbo Richard Burton mentor to Sir Anthony Hopkins Sir John Gielgud mentor to Sir Alec Guiness Sir Alec Guinness (British actor) mentor to Timothey Findley (Canadian novelist) Alfred Lunt (actor) mentor to Montgomery Clift Adam Farrar mentor to Leonardo DiCaprio Anne Jackson (actress) mentored by her sister, Katherine
NPR : Performance Today For Tuesday, November 30, 1999 pianist and humorist oscar levant starred in the movie An American in Paris, alongwith Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron (kahROH(N)). What many people don t know http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
Delusions Of Adequacy Movie Reviews - Oscar Picks Best Jazz Player oscar Peterson. Best web home page oscar Nierstrasz (at www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar).Best pianist oscar levant. Best Boxer oscar De La Hoya. http://www.adequacy.net/features/movie/movie59.shtml
Extractions: Phil's Oscar Picks Good bets for this years awards (and yes, we're purposefully late). Best Novelist: Oscar Wilde Best Fashion Designer: Oscar De La Renta Best Basketball Player: Oscar Robertson Best Jazz Player: Oscar Peterson Best web home page: Oscar Nierstrasz (at www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar Best Pianist: Oscar Levant Best Boxer: Oscar De La Hoya Best Lunch Meat and Ad Jingle: Oscar Mayer (The kid-oriented website has plenty of cookies so have milk handy.) Best Broadway Music: Oscar Hammerstein (from Rogers and Hammerstein) Best Grouch: Oscar (the Grouch) Best Slob: Oscar Maddison in the "Odd Couple." Best Awards Show: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences show on ABC March 25.
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Extractions: Front Page Encyclopedias Dictionaries Almanacs ... Quotes Oscar Levant Oscar Levant was both a pianist and an actor, better known for his character than music. He was born on December 27 to a musical family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . Levant moved to New York with his mother in after the death of his father. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski, a well established piano pedagogue. In 1928 Levant traveled to Hollywood, California where his career turned for the better. During his stay, he met and befriended George Gershwin , Around Levant began composing on a serious note. This led to a request by Aaron Copland to play at the Yaddo Festival of contemporary American music on April 30 of that year. Successful, Levant began on a new orchestral work, Sinfonietta . During the years of and , Oscar Levant syndicated his own talk show, The Oscar Levant Show . The show was highly controversial, finally being taken from the air after a comment in regards to Marilyn Monroe ; 'Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.' He later refuted he "hadn't meant it THAT way." Several months later, the show was rebroadcasted in a slightly revised format. The show was now taped to use as a buffer to Oscar's antics. This however, failed to prevent Oscar from making some comments of
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