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ReviewMusic
Five stars for Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s celebration of George Gershwin
...A century ago, George Gershwin showed there was no division between modern classical and pop music, composing instrumental pieces and also a swath of the greatest popular songs....
December 15, 2023
ReviewMusic
Carnegie Hall’s ‘Fall of the Weimar Republic’ season opens with high-intensity performances
...Instead of the regular piano solo, Roberts and group filled those passages with extensive improvisations, the pianist taking apart Gershwin’s phrases and pouring in the blues and boogie-woogie, the orchestra...
January 24, 2024
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ReviewMusic
Chineke! Orchestra premieres Joan Armatrading’s First Symphony in London
...The centrepiece of the programme was a selection of songs by George Gershwin and Margaret Bonds, orchestrated by other hands, sung by soprano Julia Bullock....
November 27, 2023
ReviewMusic
John Adams’s Frenzy is a major statement of intent — review
...The rest of the concert looked to American music of the 1920s and ’30s....
March 4, 2024
ReviewDance
New York City Ballet at 75 — a company renewing itself
...In the ballets of George Balanchine (1904-83), time and space meet on a heroic scale....
October 11, 2023
The Aesthete
St Vincent talks taste
...They’ve won awards – my brother-in-law is an amazing chef and studied with Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Thomas Keller. It’s a great hang, and when I’m in Dallas I eat at least one meal a day there....
April 5, 2024
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ReviewMusic
Glyndebourne’s The Rake’s Progress is as fresh as ever
...Their encore, an arrangement of the second of Gershwin’s Three Preludes, was deserved. ★★★★☆ bbc.co.uk/proms...
August 8, 2023
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Hong Kong in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
January 30, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Joni Mitchell makes a gleeful comeback in At Newport
...Her solo rendition of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” is a husky, jazzy highlight. The album ends with a series of redemptive gospel-tinged numbers....
July 28, 2023
ReviewMusic
Rattle leaves London wanting more with radiant farewell at BBC Proms
...The only soloist was Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who brought elegance to Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and made sure Nelsons kept the pace up....
August 28, 2023
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What’s happening in Miami: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to 2024
...Expect a combination of film, video, music, sound and performance....
February 8, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Yuja Wang: The American Project — glittering finger-work
...As students together at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams formed a duo for lessons....
March 17, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina — a compelling showcase for the edgy drummer
...Taken overall, the album is a compelling showcase for Chambers’ multiple skills The album opens with the New York rhythm section’s fluent piano-trio cover of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin’s “This is New”....
February 3, 2023
The Big Read
The crisis at the British Museum
...In the song “A Foggy Day (in London Town)”, Ira Gershwin once wrote: “I viewed the morning with much alarm/the British Museum had lost its charm.” It may not be the only one missing some charms....
September 3, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Crazy for You — a daft, dizzying musical that revels in the joy of theatre
...For at the heart of this daft, dizzying musical, which wafts along on a score of Gershwin classics and a plot as frivolous as a feather boa, is a serious point about the transformative joy of theatre — of...
July 12, 2023
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InterviewMusic
Composer Jeanine Tesori: ‘I want to write about subjects missing in the operatic canon’
...George Gershwin came from Tin Pan Alley to write Porgy and Bess. Leonard Bernstein juggled opera and Broadway with equal panache....
April 1, 2023
ReviewMusic
A hot night of music from the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in New York
...Mozart and Gershwin are essentially traditional summer sounds in New York but rarely, if ever, heard like this. Tao was clearly having fun, while also being serious about the music....
July 22, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Intrigue and violence in Caroline Shaw: The Wheel from I Giardini — album review
...Some, such as Gershwin and Bernstein, forged a hotline to a populist audience. Others, such as Ives and Cage, ploughed individual experimental furrows....
January 6, 2023
FT Globetrotter
Gig economy: the best live music venues in Melbourne
...The nearby George Lane off Fitzroy Street has carved out a local reputation for Americana and rock ’n’ roll shows in recent years and is an alternative bet for a good evening....
March 9, 2023
InterviewMusic
Conrad Tao — the classical pianist making it up as he goes along
...This past July in Lincoln Center, that muscle brought out Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” as an encore following Tao’s performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the...
November 5, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Evgeny Kissin: The Salzburg Recital album review — clear and decisive
...The first half consisted of three very diverse composers from the early 20th century — Berg, Khrennikov and Gershwin — before settling into a second half devoted to Chopin....
August 12, 2022
Transcript
Rishi Sunak and the ‘real good’ special relationship
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June 9, 2023
ReviewMusic
London Jazz Festival rounds off with beat scientists and sensuous plunking
...But the text comes in snatches and it is music that makes up the evening’s greater part....
November 21, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Crazy for You — deliriously daft musical is revived in Chichester
...This deliriously daft George and Ira Gershwin musical is just the latest gem to emerge from this venue, which has turned itself into something of a musical hit factory in recent years (2021’s South Pacific...
July 28, 2022
Transcript
What Keir Starmer did at Davos
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January 21, 2023

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