Hints and tips:
...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....
...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...
...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....
...The rest of the concert looked to American music of the 1920s and ’30s....
...In the ballets of George Balanchine (1904-83), time and space meet on a heroic scale....
...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....
...Their encore, an arrangement of the second of Gershwin’s Three Preludes, was deserved. ★★★★☆ bbc.co.uk/proms...
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
...Her solo rendition of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” is a husky, jazzy highlight. The album ends with a series of redemptive gospel-tinged numbers....
...The only soloist was Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who brought elegance to Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and made sure Nelsons kept the pace up....
...Expect a combination of film, video, music, sound and performance....
...As students together at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams formed a duo for lessons....
...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”....
...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....
...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...
...George Gershwin came from Tin Pan Alley to write Porgy and Bess. Leonard Bernstein juggled opera and Broadway with equal panache....
...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....
...Some, such as Gershwin and Bernstein, forged a hotline to a populist audience. Others, such as Ives and Cage, ploughed individual experimental furrows....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...[MUSIC PLAYING]...
...But the text comes in snatches and it is music that makes up the evening’s greater part....
...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...
International Edition