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With hundreds of dancers spinning and twirling through the coliseum in baby blue silk and tulle, and nearly 100 pianists dressed head-to-toe in matching suits and tails, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue ...
Packed with Gershwin’s own dazzling piano solos, Rhapsody in Blue has become one of the most famous orchestral pieces of all time. Growing up in New York City, George Gershwin’s musical gift ...
When Theron Brown was an undergraduate jazz studies student at the University of Akron, the thought of performing George ...
The UC Davis Symphony Orchestra juxtaposes George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” a 20th Century classic, with other works ...
Featured piano soloist will be San Francisco’s Allegra Chapman, playing George Gershwin’s iconic “Rhapsody in Blue” with the ...
Some words may be mispronounced. CBS News Sunday Morning recently presented a nice piece on the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” The actual anniversary was last ...
will premiere the first full organ transcription of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” on Friday, Apr. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Houlihan-McLean Center. The concert is free of charge and open to the ...
Gershwin's new piece was an experiment to see if jazz could be brought into the classical music performance hall. "Rhapsody in Blue" was an instant success with Irving Berlin claiming that ...
About the Album: Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein. "Rhapsody in Blue," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "Sweet & Lowdown," "Clap Yo'hands/Fascinating Rhythm ...
Rhapsody” may lack the title of “concerto,” but its flashy solos and catchy tunes have attracted a century’s worth of famous pianists to Davies — including Gershwin himself in 1937.
On the recording side are tracks like George Gershwin's beautiful Rhapsody in Blue and the legendary singer Marian Anderson's take on My Way's Cloudy. Finally, several authors had titles in the ...