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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 ...
And who could keep a straight face listening to the strutting clarinet solo at the beginning of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”? The now-iconic slide that opens the work, delivered with ...
When Theron Brown was an undergraduate jazz studies student at the University of Akron, the thought of performing George ...
Featured piano soloist will be San Francisco’s Allegra Chapman, playing George Gershwin’s iconic “Rhapsody in Blue” with 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 ...
Robert Alda plays Gershwin and makes him believable ... He has the meatiest, brilliant lines and whams over the titular Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F with virtuosity and authority as befits ...
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 ...
Take a look at the last Summer Arts Festival in Omaha George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” is celebrating its centennial. And the Omaha Symphony will join the party this weekend as Conrad ...
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 ...