Nearly nine decades after his death at 38 years old, George Gershwin remains one of the most celebrated and influential American composers. Dr. Thomas Cimarusti, Professor of Music History at Florida ...
Lost sheet music from George Gershwin’s first full-length musical has resurfaced nearly a century after it was last performed. Jacob Kerzner, a researcher and musician at the University of Michigan, ...
When “Rhapsody in Blue” was first performed at New York City’s Aeolian Concert Hall 100 years ago this month, it was a cultural watershed. Concertgoers gushed. Critics swooned. The work’s composer, 25 ...
George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. "My idea for the concert," Whiteman wrote in his ...
On January 26, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the UM Gershwin Initiative presented a centennial concert of works by George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira ...
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal. Some of the best music I’ve ever heard was ...
Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone will be presented February 7-11, 2024 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Tickets (starting at $37) are now ...
To the editor: Thanks to Gustavo Arellano for the tribute to George Gershwin and his “messy” masterpiece, “Rhapsody in Blue.” Despite criticism of this work, performers will play and audiences will ...
Following the creation of 14 stage characters and 18 film productions including Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, and more, Hershey Felder returns to the ...
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