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...He explained that Ira had to add the lyrics to George’s music after his brother’s early death, and that the words helped him live with that loss: “Our love is here to stay.” ★★★★★ carnegiehall.org...
...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 rest of the concert looked to American music of the 1920s and ’30s....
...If it was ever true that what we call classical music was a closed shop, it certainly is not now....
...Part coming-of-age tale, part multigenerational family drama, the show is set against the backdrop of the Birmingham riots; the West Midlands music scene; and the IRA’s mainland campaign in the early 1980s...
...I’ve gone back to a classic, This American Life with Ira Glass. But also, let me say, I think Love + Radio is brilliant. It’s deeply odd, with subversive stories, and the sound design is epic....
...Balanchine overlays it with human drama, no less heroic (often the drama of male and female), and with music drama, where the close counterpoint of choreography and music (from Bach to Stravinsky) is often...
...So similar to the IRA, right. You know, America is also a high-cost economy....
...Russell’s uniquely spacey music provided the score for Keep the Lights On, Sachs’s most melancholic film to date....
...“My crusade was to make Irish music hip again,” MacGowan said....
...Their encore, an arrangement of the second of Gershwin’s Three Preludes, was deserved. ★★★★☆ bbc.co.uk/proms...
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...His last appearance in London as the LSO’s music director fell to the BBC Proms....
...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 last music I bought was a duet by Mina and Alberto Lupo, “Parole, Parole”. I adore Italian love songs. I have a collection of 18th-century Austrian coffee cups....
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
...Expect a combination of film, video, music, sound and performance....
...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”....
...As students together at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams formed a duo for lessons....
...Not so says Ira Drukier, co-owner of the Hotel Chelsea in New York. Global approaches are just different....
...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...
...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....
...Some, such as Gershwin and Bernstein, forged a hotline to a populist audience. Others, such as Ives and Cage, ploughed individual experimental furrows....
...I also thought that this piece by folk artist Ketch Secor, on how country music can help push gun reform, was kind of brilliant....
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